Elizabeth David famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
-- Elizabeth David

#Inspiration #Miracle #Possibility
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.
-- Elizabeth David

#Morning #Food #Tree
Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.
-- Elizabeth David

#Shoes #House #Comforting
Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.
-- Elizabeth David

#Organization #Long #Kitchen
It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.
-- Elizabeth David

#Believe #Hero #Home
The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.
-- Elizabeth David

#Giving #Cooking #Flavor
It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.
-- Elizabeth David

#Mistake #Water #Cooking
An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.
-- Elizabeth David

#Fear #Thinking #People
I would probably never have learned to cook.
-- Elizabeth David

#Cooks
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.
-- Elizabeth David

#Summer #Essence #Cooking
I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.
-- Elizabeth David

#Two Friends #Kitchen #Equipment
Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
-- Elizabeth David

#Writing #Difficult
Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.
-- Elizabeth David

#Preparation #Trouble #Good Food
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
-- Elizabeth David

#Trying #Recipes #Copies

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