Delia Smith

“Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them.”

“If you can read, you can cook.”

“Good food is all about good ingredients.”

“Let's be having you! Where are you? Let's be having you!”

“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”

“We have lost our cooking skills. We have a generation of people who have never been taught how to cook.”

“I am not a chef. I am a cook.”

“The most important thing about cooking is to have confidence.”

“A pinch of salt is about one-eighth of a teaspoon.”

“Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”

“I teach people how to cook, that's all. I don't try to be a chef.”

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.”