Food Quotes by Elizabeth David

It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by…

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the…

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

I would probably never have learned to cook.

— Elizabeth David

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before…

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

— Elizabeth David

Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the…

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David

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

— Elizabeth David