Bread Quote by Laurie Colwin

British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of…

— Nigel Slater

One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of…

— Owen Paterson

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

— Bill Bryson

Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?

— Steven Adams

Savoury food is for main course, and fruit is for pudding.

— Gwilym Lee

Savoury cakes are very popular in France, they appear in boulangeries and with a side salad on lunch menus in chic cafes, but they're…

— Rachel Khoo

“Such heaped up platters of cakes of various and almost indescribable kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives! There was the doughty doughnut, the…

— Washington Irving

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's…

— Nigella Lawson

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and…

— Bryan Talbot

Of all the meals that represented British culture, perhaps none captured the imagination more than the Christmas pudding. It was the Victorians who firmly…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

When it comes to breakfast, baked goods are my weakness (besides coffee): toast, croissants, heck, even a scone on the weekend. There is one…

— Chris Morocco