Nigel Slater Quotes

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

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

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

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#6. If only those old walls could talk ... how boring they would be.

Robert Benchley

#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

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

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#12. One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

Samuel Larsen

#13. No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

Allen Iverson

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

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

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

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

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#19. At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

#20. I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

Anthony Warlow

#21. 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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#22. Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

Seth Lloyd

#24. Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

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

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#26. 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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#27. Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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#29. Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Anthony Bourdain

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

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#31. For someone who did a lot of yoga and had a peace sign tramp stamp on her lower back, she sure could be a bitch.

Alison Umminger