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Food Quotes by Jack Monroe

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Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and a simple pleasure. The quotes stress that children perform best when they start the day with proper nutrition, and they describe how fussy eaters go through color and texture phases. They also share a personal story of hardship and the help received from food charities.

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A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.

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I look back and nearly all of my early jobs were in food.

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I know that I can cook well on a low budget so I can't really justify spending a fortune on food.

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I live in a world where I want everyone to be able to put beurre blanc on the table for dinner.

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Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

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I think I'll be around as long as there is a market for simple, basic, non-intimidating food.

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I'm of Cypriot heritage, we have no concept of portion control.

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Food is a weapon in austerity Britain. Hunger, the threat of and the reality of, is used to coerce and control.

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Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid. Some people don't…

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Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The…

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But it's a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and…

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There's all kinds of research that shows children operate best if they start the day with some proper food inside them -…

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Learning to cook at school gave me the confidence to experiment in the kitchen when I left home in my late teens…

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The thing with my recipes is, I don't have hours to faff about in the kitchen. My recipes are all 15, 20…

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Tinned food can be cheaper than buying fresh stuff. Things like tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, mushy peas make a good base for…

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The last time I celebrated a special occasion, I hashed together a paella with some chicken, some frozen veg, long-grain rice, chilli…

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Regular readers will know that curries are my favourite thing, and I wanted to go back to the start and really research…

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After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I…

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If you consider each individual tin as just the building block for a larger recipe, it doesn't really make much difference whether…

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I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and…

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We hear time and again what a prosperous, affluent country Britain is, the sixth richest in the world. But aren't we ashamed…

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I was a bit of an accident really - I certainly didn't set out to write a cookbook or three. I didn't…

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I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment…

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My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

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I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you.

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I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

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Yes, scrambled eggs are lovely, and I've eaten them, and enjoyed them, and that was OK. Now I don't want to any…

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When I was at my lowest point I had a lot of help from charities, food banks, to see me through so…

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We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

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It took 24 years for me to harness my autistic traits into something useful, and I have grown to regard them as…

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I remember loving food tech because of the precision and the creativity, the weights and measures, the tiny glimpses of flavour.

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My parents tended to cook big batch food because there was always the possibility that other children would turn up with their…

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Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men.…

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I write cheap recipes for struggling families and single people, and have donated 800 copies of my newest cookery book to food…

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If the thought of cold tomato soup makes you shudder, take it from a veteran, it's like a creamy gazpacho, but in…

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I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.

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I was a young mother with a dependent. I went from nice flat and fire service job to cold and hungry with…

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You can pretty much make anything with a base of tinned tomatoes. If I don't have tinned tomatoes in my cupboard, I…

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Those of us referred to food banks are the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well…

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We have an odd culinary relationship with tinned food. In higher society, rare and supposedly exquisite goods such as tinned baby octopus,…

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Working behind the cocktail bar was a different kind of escapism, a creative outlet with a newfound respect for alcohol. I didn't drink as…

I'm not organised, and I don't cope well with deadlines, structure and routine. I'm chaotic. Always have been.

During my time at Essex county fire and rescue service, barely a shift went by without receiving a call from an elderly person who…

If I've learned anything in the last seven or eight years it's that my career flies by the seat of my pants and that…

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I wear Doc Martens leather boots, so I'm not a vegan. I am a vague-one.