Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth David

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British writer Elizabeth David.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Elizabeth David CBE was a British cookery writer. In the mid-20th century she strongly influenced the revitalisation of home cookery in her native country and beyond with articles and books about European cuisines and traditional British dishes.

British - Writer | December 26, 1913 - May 22, 1992

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

Elizabeth David

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

Elizabeth David

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

Elizabeth David

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

Elizabeth David

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

Elizabeth David

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Elizabeth David

Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.

Elizabeth David

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

Elizabeth David

I would probably never have learned to cook.

Elizabeth David

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

Elizabeth David

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Elizabeth David

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

Elizabeth David

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.

Elizabeth David

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

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.

Elizabeth David