I would probably never have learned to cook.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.