Nigel Slater > Quotes

“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you. ”
― Nigel Slater

“Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?”
― Nigel Slater

“I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.”
― Nigel Slater, Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at the Table

“Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.”
― Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

“Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose.”
― Nigel Slater

“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.”
― Nigel Slater, Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at the Table

“Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.”
― Nigel Slater, Toast

“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.”
― Nigel Slater, Real Cooking

“Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.”
― Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”
― Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

“Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.”
― Nigel Slater, Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch

“...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.”
― Nigel Slater, Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch