Recipe Writing Quotes

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

I was a bit of an accident really - I certainly didn't set out to write a cookbook or three. I didn't have a plan. I was unemployed, writing a blog about local politics and a few recipes, and it was more successful than I could ever have imagined it to be.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.

I would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'

I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited about the recipes.

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.