Kristen Gilbert quotes

I am in England and the food here is not to be tasted as much as just swallowed without grimacing.
-- Kristen Gilbert

#Food #England

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.