28 Quotes by Nigel Slater

Nichts ist so nützlich und vielseitig wie ein kaltes Brathühnchen.

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.

No matter how bad things get, it’s impossible not to love someone who made you toast. Once you’ve been through that crusty surface to the soft underneath and tasted the warm, salty butter you’ll last forever.

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

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

Well let’s face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

You can’t smell a hug. You can’t hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.

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.