Nigel Slater famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.
-- Nigel Slater

#Impossible #Toasts
Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.
-- Nigel Slater

#Dabs #Mustard
Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.
-- Nigel Slater

#Light #Kitchen #Size
Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.
-- Nigel Slater

#Paris #Tomatoes
There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science â€“ we are only making ourselves something to eat.
-- Nigel Slater

#Art #Cooking #Too Much
Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose.
-- Nigel Slater

#Dad #Mean #Thinking
Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.
-- Nigel Slater

#Nice #Real #Cooking
Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?
-- Nigel Slater

#Couple #Party #Gay
It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.
-- Nigel Slater

#Quality #Intrigue
It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.
-- Nigel Slater

#Hands #Tongue #Impossible
I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.
-- Nigel Slater

#Food #Thinking #Self
Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
-- Nigel Slater

#Careers #Hobbies #Said

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