Elizabeth David Quotes

#1. Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

Elizabeth David

#2. Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Elizabeth David

#3. I would probably never have learned to cook.

Elizabeth David

#4. The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.

Elizabeth David

#5. An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

Elizabeth David

#6. It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

Elizabeth David

#7. I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Elizabeth David

#8. To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Elizabeth David

#9. I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Elizabeth David

#10. Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Elizabeth David

#11. Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

Elizabeth David

#12. Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

#13. Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

Elizabeth David