Food Quotes by Sue Perkins

9 Food quotes by Sue Perkins

Perkins’s food musings are witty and warm, blending humor with genuine affection for meals. The short set feels like a lively conversation over tea.

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I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.

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You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.

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For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.

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Because I'm busy, I don't sit down to a lot of big formal meals - unless I've got mates round, in which…

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When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it…

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A good 'Bake Off,' for me, is just about cakes and nice people - and that's a successful show.

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I don't understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in…

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Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to…

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You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher…

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I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.

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One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

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Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.

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It's always a treat for me to go to the British Library.

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I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the…

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I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.

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Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day.…

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I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

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I came to music very young.

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“Memories are slippery bastards – bring them into the light, handle them too often, they’ll bend, change colour. Keep them in the dark and…

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It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.

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I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.

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I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn't…

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Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.

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