Food Quotes by Prue Leith

Nobody should eat too much cake.

— Prue Leith

I would have my last meal at my home in Oxfordshire.

— Prue Leith

I've never been much of a cake-maker.

— Prue Leith

It's tough to eat well if you don't know how to cook.

— Prue Leith

I prefer pub food to posh food.

— Prue Leith

I believe in good, honest food. That's always been my ethos.

— Prue Leith

I probably eat yogurt more than anything else.

— Prue Leith

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

I get cross with foodies who think hospital food should be Michelin-star and caterers can fall into this trap.

— Prue Leith

My grandchildren love cooking, and it doesn't have to be sweet things.

— Prue Leith

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

— Prue Leith

I get more questions about my necklaces and specs than I do about food.

— Prue Leith

I'm a good cook, I am not a great cook. I'm an absolute fraud.

— Prue Leith

Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.

— Prue Leith

My worst habit is opening the fridge and thinking: 'I'd like to eat something.'

— Prue Leith

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

People often ask what my favourite food is, but the answer depends on what I last ate. I love sausages and mash.…

— Prue Leith

My first taste memory is of our nanny in South Africa making white bread sandwiches with salad cream, which was potato mashed…

— Prue Leith

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

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

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

What I want to do is produce really delicious food. I want it to look nice, because when you see food you…

— Prue Leith

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

With great difficulty, I persuaded my dentist to saw one of my teeth level with the others. He thought it might kill…

— Prue Leith

If you eat good ingredients, and moderately, it should not be a problem. If you look at the bakers over the years,…

— Prue Leith

The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so…

— Prue Leith

Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with…

— Prue Leith

You can serve good food on a budget provided you don't waste it.

— Prue Leith

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

Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer?

— Prue Leith

Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important.

— Prue Leith

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

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

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

Hua Hin is Thailand's royal beach resort and home to the king's summer palace. The local food is fantastic, the weather is…

— Prue Leith

I'm nicknamed the 'food tsar' by the press. I'm always giving my opinion on things like; 'Don't nanny children,' although children sometimes…

— Prue Leith

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

I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be…

— Prue Leith

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

I vividly remember throwing a bowl of porridge at my husband Rayne once when he defended the children instead of me -…

— Prue Leith