22 Quotes by Fergus Henderson

This is a celebration of cuts of meat, innards, and extremities that are more often forgotten or discarded in today’s kitchen; it would seem disingenuous to the animal not to make the most of the whole beast: there is a set of delights, textural and flavorsome, which lie beyond the fillet.

Don’t be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.