Elizabeth David Quotations

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

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.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

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.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

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.