Top 19 Nigel Slater Quotes

#1. Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

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#2. I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.

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#3. Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

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#4. I have become more interested than ever in the effect of a diet higher in 'greens' than it is in meat - both in terms of my own wellbeing and, more recently, those implications that go beyond me and those for whom I cook.

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#5. A brush of green olive paste is worth pursuing.

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#6. I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.

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#7. It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

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#8. British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

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#9. Garlic as fresh and sweet as a baby's breath.

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#10. Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

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#11. It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

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#12. You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.

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#13. Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

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#14. No matter how bad things get, it's impossible not to love someone who made you toast. Once you've been through that crusty surface to the soft underneath and tasted the warm, salty butter you'll last forever.

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#15. Believe me when I tell you that there is no lie quite so obvious as the one where you try to protest that you have washed your face ready for bedtime while you are still sporting an enormous ear-to-ear purple smile of dried Ribena.

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#16. I am a winter person, never happier than on a clear, frosty morning.

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#17. Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

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#18. It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

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#19. Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

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