Back Quote by Gregg Wallace

Sign on a frozen-food counter: Best meals you ever thaw.

— Nikhil Saluja

When I had a side-by-side-style freezer, I kept everything - soup, ground meat, steaks, cooked rice - frozen in flat packs that I filed…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

“and the stainless-steel fridge was always well-stocked with Girl Food: hummus and olives, cake and champagne, lots of silly take-out vegetarian salads and half…

— Donna Tartt

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish,…

— Jose Andres

“In the evenings, my father and I ate dinner quietly in front of the TV together. Wednesday night, Thursday. Frozen dinners I'd picked out…

— Aimee Bender

We used to have prawn tempura: that was my mother's favourite dish. But she had to go out to work instead of my father,…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never…

— Calvin Trillin

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

— Andy Goldsworthy

“If there'd been anything decent in the house, anything approaching real ice cream, it would have been eaten long ago. I knew this, so…

— David Sedaris

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat…

— Carol Vorderman

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in…

— Jeffrey Kluger

My freezer is a labelled-and-dated marvel of soups, stews, braises, cooked grains, bread, and the occasional half-eaten dessert. Any of them can be defrosted…

— Chris Morocco