Elizabeth David Quotes

• Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

  Elizabeth David

  Inspirational, Miracle, Everyday

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• Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

  Elizabeth David

  Preparation, Trouble, Good Food

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• Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.

  Elizabeth David

  Food, Building Up, Shoes

  Elizabeth David (1969). “French Country Cooking”

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• The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.

  Elizabeth David

  Giving, Cooking, Flavor

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• To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

  Elizabeth David

  Morning, Food, Tree

  Elizabeth David (1999). “Italian Food”, p.261, Penguin

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• Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

  Elizabeth David

  Summer, Food, Essence

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• Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

  Elizabeth David

  Country, Next Week, Years

  Elizabeth David (1999). “French Provincial Cooking”, p.23, Penguin

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• Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

  Elizabeth David

  Organization, Long, Kitchen

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• It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.

  Elizabeth David

  Believe, Hero, Mean

  Elizabeth David (2011). “A Taste of the Sun”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

  Elizabeth David

  Trying, Recipes, Copies

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• It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

  Elizabeth David

  Mistake, Water, Cooking

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• Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

  Elizabeth David

  Writing, Difficult

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• I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

  Elizabeth David

  Two Friends, Kitchen, Equipment

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• An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

  Elizabeth David

  Fear, Thinking, People

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• I would probably never have learned to cook.

  Elizabeth David

  Cooks

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