Acting Quote by Heston Blumenthal

I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

— Art Malik

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable…

— Sebastian Faulks

My childhood was idyllic to begin with. We lived on a farm in Oxfordshire and my mum used its produce in the kitchen. She…

— Rick Stein

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was…

— Julia Child

The Sixties - I had to have my foot in everything then. I'm doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know.…

— Paul Newman

I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of…

— Quentin S. Crisp

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked…

— Vince Cable

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

— Gloria Swanson

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time…

— Jane Goodall

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be…

— Joe R. Lansdale

When I'm able to eat cheap and delicious food, like ramen and beef bowls, I can't stop but to think, 'Ah, what a great…

— Yoko Taro

What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but…

— Fergus Henderson