Daniel Humm Quotes

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

I buy way too many cookbooks and read food blogs at night when I can't sleep.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

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

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

I am a cookbook fanatic.

I would definitely be interested in doing a cooking show or something related to cooking, and I think probably most immediately, I would do a cookbook.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

I've been thinking about a cookbook. I've been making notes and promising myself I'll do it some day. I have an idea for a cookbook and music together.

On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.

I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.

I love cookbooks. I collect them.