I'm from Carlisle, you know, there wasn't any posh restaurants. One of the most exciting meals I had was at the Wimpy. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
My freezer always has veggie burgers in it. I don't think you should eat them every day, but they're really handy. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl I always enjoyed the roast potatoes and the vegetables at Sunday dinner more than the meat. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Everybody you meet, when you're a restaurant critic, tells you they'd love to be your dinner companion. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
What we eat at home, behind closed doors, is personal. Our secret snacky peccadilloes do not bear scrutiny. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Food fads are the bane of the critic's life because you're served the same thing again and again. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Two-thousand-and-eighteen is the year of the buffet, and as a restaurant critic, I applaud this. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I really abhor factory farming and its byproducts so I live a vegan lifestyle as much as I can. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Eating plant-based makes really no impact on my career as a restaurant critic. I see this as my special skill as a… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I eat food from all over the world for my job as a restaurant critic, so I often find myself craving a… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I'm a massive animal lover so the glorification of meat doesn't sit right with me. I don't get upset if people eat… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
When I was young enough to work at the Guardian Guide, we once covered our go-to TV dinners; my love of cheap… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Microwaving cooks food from the inside out, so you can say goodbye to spongy aubergines and hello to beautifully soft flesh that… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Whenever I talk about loving vegan food, it starts a backlash. The vegans aren't happy with me because I'm not fully vegan… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I loved the secret language of stupid fancy restaurants: I knew the question 'How do you want that cooked?' is actually rhetorical… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
If God wanted me to be a size eight, would he have made Birds Eye Potato Waffles so waffly versatile? Or toastable… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I skip breakfast a lot - often, it's just a litre of coffee with oat milk - and I eat lots of… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Eighties vegetarians were a lonely, much maligned breed, exposed to frozen pub-lunch veggie lasagnes, prototype soy milk that floated on tea like… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I am not anti-Gwyneth. However, I am against the wholly cynical, harmful machine-pushing of a famous woman - who has endless Hollywood-style… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
If you don't love a table groaning with fancy salads, pimped-up couscous, show-stopping trifle and a cubic ton of my grandmother's own… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I'm just a woman who carries oat milk in my handbag, can tell you 10 good ways to scramble tofu and whose… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
People say that the modern Christmas focuses too much on food instead of, like in olden times, the little Baby Jesus. Piffle. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Some foodie types are snobbish about the microwave; I see it as a loyal friend who has had my back for over… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Give me an impromptu 50-person guest list, a fold-out emergency trestle table and a pack of frozen vol-au-vent cases and, darlings, I will give… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I skip breakfast a lot - often, it's just a litre of coffee with oat milk - and I eat lots of protein at… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Once, bit-fetching was the job mainly of children. In the 1970s, if I sat too long looking bored, I'd be dispatched to the shop… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I've realised that, from your mid-40s, everything you eat and drink shows in your face. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
The moment you become sober, you feel 100% better. Then you have to stop yourself being evangelical because you feel like you've found religion. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Everybody you meet, when you're a restaurant critic, tells you they'd love to be your dinner companion. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
My rule of thumb with being in the closet is, as long as you're not spending Sundays thumping a bible about Sodom, or weekdays… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Sometimes you only realise how far you've travelled when you turn around and see the distance behind. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl I always enjoyed the roast potatoes and the vegetables at Sunday dinner more than the meat. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
What 'Transparent' actually is if you give it a chance is a compelling, intoxicating look at family, siblings, secrets, divorce, being Jewish, mid-life anguish… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
