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1 " Wandering across the vast room, I stopped at a set of shelves as high as the ceiling, and holding about six hundred volumes - all classics on the history of Soalris, starting with the nine volumes of Giese's monumental and already relatively obsolescent monograph. Display for its own sake was improbable in these surroundings. The collection was a respective tribute to the memory of the pioneers. I took down the massive volumes of Giese and sat leafing through them. Rheya had also located som reading matter. Looking over her shoulder, I saw that she had picked one of the many books brought out by the first expedition, the Interplanetary Cookery Book, which could have been the personal property of Giese himself. She was pouring over the recipes adapted to the arduous conditions of interstellar flight. I said nothing, and returned to the book resting on my knees. Solaris - Ten Years of Exploration had appeared as volumes 4-12 of the Solariana collection whose most recent additions were numbered in the thousands. "
― Stanisław Lem , Solaris
2 " He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult. "
― Seth Grahame-Smith , Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
3 " Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything. "
― Aldous Huxley ,
4 " I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. "
― Barbara Pym , Excellent Women
5 " Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner. "
― Aldous Huxley
6 " Kissing don't last: cookery do ! "
― George Meredith
7 " TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen. "
8 " Kissing don't last: cookery do. "
9 " Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. "
10 " Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. "
11 " Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda. "