“A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe.”

— Julia Child

Quoted in New York Times obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/dining/13CND-CHILD.html

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American chef 1921–2004

Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States

"All Right, Jerry, Drop the Cookbook" (p.47)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

“The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. … Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information.”

George Pólya book How to Solve It

Source: How to Solve It (1945), p. 219

“If humanity were to lose its libraries, not only would it be deprived of certain treasures of art, certain spiritual riches, but, more important still, it would lose its recipes for living.”

Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) French writer

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), pp. 17-18

“The disproportionate use of force is clearly discriminatory. This is not a recipe for good police-community relations.”

Diane Abbott (1953) British Labour Party politician

Met Police 'use force more often' against black people https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44214748 BBC News (24 May 2018)
2010s, 2018

“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

As quoted in Quotes That Help You Survive (2006) by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor.

“Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.”

Robert J. Marks II (1950) American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent design advocate

Pursuance of truth requires consideration of a creator. If you define science to exclude the possibility of a creator, it isn’t a pursuance of truth.
The universe as accepted by science in terms of size and age is not big enough or old enough to explain evolution.
Q&A: ‘Expelled’s’ Robert Marks, From an interview with Jerry Pierce, 2008-01-28, 2008-02-18 http://www.sbtexan.com/default.asp?action=article&aid=5534&issue=2/4/2008,

“I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it’s really my relaxation.”

Ali Larter (1976) American actress

[Guinness, Rebecca, Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny, Vanity Fair, 2009-04-24, http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/04/obsessed-with-cooking-michael-jackson-and-being-a-manny.html, 2010-06-28]

“On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”

Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) French writer

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 18

“Being able to exist in a place where light and dark meet is actually not a recipe for unhappiness. It is a recipe for a deeper kind of happiness.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bastian, Jonathan (host). "Bittersweet: Susan Cain on the joy of sweet sorrow". KCRW.com (Los Angeles). May 21, 2022.

“A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe.”

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