English Cooking Quotes

#1. A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

Donald Hall

#2. 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

#3. I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

Erma Bombeck

#4. Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale

#5. I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

Pope Francis

#6. Nothing is more reassuring, nothing is more true to the comfortable spirit of English occultism, than the smell of Brussels sprouts cooking

Terry Pratchett

#7. Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian.

Cynthia Lennon

#8. What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.

Virginia Woolf

#9. One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

Joyce Maynard

#10. The English, he thought, had once conquered most of the known world, but their cooking hadn't improved as a result.

Lavie Tidhar

#11. How do you really know if anyone loves you?

Michael Thomas Ford

#12. Nothing quite prepares you for the sight of your dead father. Nothing is more unbelievable than the sight of death on such a familiar face.

Glenn Haybittle

#13. I wear my rue with a difference.

William Shakespeare

#14. I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

Todd English

#15. To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy ...

Stedman Graham

#16. I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Arsene Wenger

#17. I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

Todd English

#18. If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi