I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I get more questions about my necklaces and specs than I do about food. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Food shouldn't do you any harm, obviously you don't want a bad diet, but it should be one of life's great pleasures. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I get cross with foodies who think hospital food should be Michelin-star and caterers can fall into this trap. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
The most followed chef is Delia Smith. She is my age and doesn't try to be entertaining, she encourages people to learn… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
What I want to do is produce really delicious food. I want it to look nice, because when you see food you… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
At barbecues, people just like to eat a lot of meat; it's extraordinary. They eat far more than they normally would at… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I'd been brought up in a society which didn't talk about sex, food, money, religion or politics. Those things were all deemed… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
My first taste memory is of our nanny in South Africa making white bread sandwiches with salad cream, which was potato mashed… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I opened Leith's in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
It takes several doses of any veg before children like it, but once they do they'll like it for life. You wouldn't… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
If you eat good ingredients, and moderately, it should not be a problem. If you look at the bakers over the years,… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
With great difficulty, I persuaded my dentist to saw one of my teeth level with the others. He thought it might kill… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer? — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
My worst habit is opening the fridge and thinking: 'I'd like to eat something.' — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I adored the celebrity 'Bake Offs.' They have a more relaxed atmosphere. They all come on thinking they're not competitive so there's… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I won't eat something which is high in calories and not particularly wonderful, because that's just not worth it, you feel guilty… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
People often ask what my favourite food is, but the answer depends on what I last ate. I love sausages and mash.… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I'm for ever banging on about… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
What makes me laugh is 'Masterchef,' with that ridiculous thing they always say, 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this!.' — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
For me the best food in the world is New British. It's quite classical cooking with really simple but good-quality ingredients. I… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I vividly remember throwing a bowl of porridge at my husband Rayne once when he defended the children instead of me -… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share
Hua Hin is Thailand's royal beach resort and home to the king's summer palace. The local food is fantastic, the weather is beautiful, everything's… — Prue Leith Copy Share
If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down. — Prue Leith Copy Share
I've always had an image of Mother's Pride flour, very respectable and middle-class. — Prue Leith Copy Share
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith Copy Share
I adored the celebrity 'Bake Offs.' They have a more relaxed atmosphere. They all come on thinking they're not competitive so there's a lot… — Prue Leith Copy Share
The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food… — Prue Leith Copy Share
With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before. — Prue Leith Copy Share
I think the most important thing in the whole world is love and relationships, and if you don't have them it's quite bad. — Prue Leith Copy Share
