Prue Leith

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

— Prue Leith

I try to spend most weekends in the Cotswolds, having fun.

— Prue Leith

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older…

— Prue Leith

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

— 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

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

— 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 am not saying celebrity chefs don't encourage children to cook. However, their programmes are so entertaining, you end up stuffing your…

— Prue Leith

The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I'm for ever banging on about…

— Prue Leith

It's surprising how you can behave like a 16-year-old in your 60s, or a 17-year-old in your 70s. You know, it's exactly…

— Prue Leith

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

— Prue Leith

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

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

— Prue Leith

I'm completely addicted to Radio 4, even 100-year-old things like 'Just a Minute.' I even arrange my weekends around the Sunday edition…

— Prue Leith

I was asked if I would do 'Dancing On Ice.' I thought it'd be the perfect way to get fit, lose a…

— Prue Leith

Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild.

— Prue Leith

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about…

— Prue Leith

I used to always employ South Africans and Aussies and Kiwis - I can't admit this, well I can now, but I…

— Prue Leith

My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend…

— 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

“Lotte watched Peter's fingers gently massaging his forehead and felt a wave of affection. The slightest stress - anxiety, embarrassment, confusion -…

— 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

Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?

— Prue Leith

I'm an optimist - very glass half-full.

— Prue Leith