Nigel Slater quotes
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“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.”
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“Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.”
-- Nigel SlaterSource : Nigel Slater (2005). “The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater”, Gotham
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“Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.”
-- Nigel SlaterSource : "Not Roquette Science". www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2005.
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“Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.”
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“There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.”
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“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 SlaterSource : "While Other Boys in His Class Were Reading Shoot! Nigel Subscribed to Cordon Bleu Magazine". www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2003.
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“Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.”
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“Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?”
-- Nigel SlaterSource : "In This Month's OFM". www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
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“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”
-- Nigel SlaterSource : Nigel Slater (2013). “The Kitchen Diaries”, p.64, HarperCollins UK
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“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.”
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“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.”
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“Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.”
-- Nigel SlaterSource : Nigel Slater (2005). “Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger”, p.11, Penguin
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