Roast beef Quote by Washington Irving

“What passes for wine among us, is not the juice of the grape. It is an adulterous mixture, brewed up of nauseous ingredients, by…

— Tobias Smollett

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

— Ben Elton

English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.

— Marco Pierre White

I've always lived in an English household. We had roast beef and Yorkshire puddings every Sunday.

— Owen Hargreaves

“A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste,’ the old man used to say. ‘These are the virtues that made Britain great.”

— Ken Follett

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

— Oscar Wilde

“There was roast hog, of course, braised mutton, and casserole of the tenderest beef. Platters of trout and salmon gleamed like treasure, dressed with…

— Paula Brackston

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

— William Nicholson

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

A tender beef roast with a well-browned exterior is about as easy to pair with wine as a dish can be. You have your…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Bourbon's the only drink. Youcan take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you…

— John Michael Hayes

The sparkling wines from Ridgeview Estate [...] are superb and will forever put to rest the notion that England is not capable of making…

— Eric Asimov