The Cook's Tale Quotes

“The only thing I used to say to myself was that I hoped God wasn't a big chicken or we'd all be in a lot of trouble later on.”
― Nancy Jackman, The Cook's Tale

“When I was a little girl I lived in a tiny farm worker’s cottage on the edge of a small Norfolk village where the local school was expected to send girls up to the big house whenever they were needed – seems a bloody cheek now. Just because the lady of the manor had a servant sick was that any reason to take another girl away from school? We got little enough education back then anyway.”
― Nancy Jackman, The Cook's Tale: Life below stairs as it really was

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― Nancy Jackman, The Cook's Tale: Life below stairs as it really was

“TB was dreaded. We knew a family of six children and slowly over about six or seven years they all died of TB. All of them.”
― Nancy Jackman, The Cook's Tale: Life below stairs as it really was

“My father also remembered his baby sister dying because his father, my grandfather, had to walk six miles to fetch the nearest doctor and by the time they got back it was too late. Whole families died from TB and there was malaria still rife in East Anglia and especially on the Fens.”
― Nancy Jackman, The Cook's Tale: Life below stairs as it really was

“Looking back I realise that life was really all about bloody tea in those days. Whenever you had a minute off or a date or you met someone for the first time it was straight to the teapot.”
― Nancy Jackman, The Cook's Tale

“They'd seen too much of life and didn't want to get back into the narrow little world they'd come from.”
― Nancy Jackman, The Cook's Tale