Nigel Slater
It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.Collection: Impossible
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.Collection: Hands
There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.Collection: Art
Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.Collection: Dabs
Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.Collection: Careers
British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.Collection: Sweet
Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.Collection: Light
Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.Collection: Real
Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.Collection: Paris
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Food
It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.Collection: Quality
Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?Collection: Couple
It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.Collection: Sweet