I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing.
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.
I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.
I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.
I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.'
Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.
After opening my first restaurant in 1969, one of the regular customers suggested I write a cookbook, so I did. Then another. After my 12th one, I started to feel stale.
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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 would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.
Every author has to eventually write a food book.
Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet.
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.
I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.
My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
