Quotes by Mary Berry - Page 2

I make myself eat one piece of toast for breakfast. When I'm doing 'Bake Off,' I eat soup for lunch. I know what puts on weight for me; it's just over-indulgence.
Mary Berry /
Breakfast
Lunch
Soup
Weight
Myself Me Doing
Bake
Piece
Puts
Toast
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Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching - whether it is television or books. We should all share.
Mary Berry /
Pleasure
Share
Should
Teaching
Television
Get
Books
Pass
Something
Whether
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I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.
Mary Berry /
Stressed
Leave
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I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes and some colour to my face, as without it, I look pale and uninteresting.
Mary Berry /
Add
Colour
Lashes
Pale
Eyes Face Look
Brighten
Extra
Pink
Uninteresting
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Before the start of each new series, I go shopping for my 'Bake Off' wardrobe. I've got increasingly confident with my look and now wear much more colour than I did at the start.
Mary Berry /
Colour
Shopping
Bake
Confident
Increasingly
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My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.
Mary Berry /
Christmas
Lovely
Son
Tree
Wait
Surgeon
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I walk, and I play tennis, but mainly I watch what I eat. I eat all the things that I love, including cake. Cake is very important to me. But it's all about the size of the slice!
Mary Berry /
Cake
Important
Including
Size
Tennis
Eat
Love Walk Me
Watch
Walk
Mainly
Slice
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I can't bear the thought of retirement, and I haven't prepared myself for it. I don't play bridge, and I don't play golf. I do play tennis, but you can't do that every day of the week.
Mary Berry /
Golf
Prepared
Retirement
Tennis
Bear
Bridge
Play Golf
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You've got to pay an awful lot for your hotel before you get fresh orange juice. If a hotel has got proper orange juice - and you do expect it if you're abroad - I rank the hotel highly.
Mary Berry /
Awful
Hotel
Juice
Orange
Abroad
Awful Lot
Expect
Fresh
Highly
Proper
Rank
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When our William was killed, there wasn't a child bereavement charity. I was extremely blessed with a very close family, wonderful friends, a supportive husband, and two further children.
Mary Berry /
Bereavement
Blessed
Charity
Supportive
Further
William
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I would serve a selection of cakes, scones, and small sandwiches for afternoon tea. High tea is usually served between 5 P.M. and 6 P.M., replacing an evening meal - it is more substantial.
Mary Berry /
Afternoon
Evening
Sandwiches
Selection
Cakes
Meal
Replacing
Served
Substantial
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I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusual about me. I'm just a mum and a granny who is teaching cookery on TV. Basically, I'm very ordinary.
Mary Berry /
Cookery
Granny
Ordinary
Unusual
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I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake Off' is a happy show; there is no bad language, and although we do have drama, we deal with it calmly.
Mary Berry /
Nervous
Great Always Bad
Bake
Calmly
Television Show
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At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
Mary Berry /
Catholic
Cleaning
France
Domestic
Newspaper
Windows
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Our aim is to get people to enjoy 'Bake Off' at home and for our bakers to enjoy what they are doing. We don't want to catch them out. It's a very happy occasion, and it's about encouraging people to bake at home.
Mary Berry /
Encouraging
Aim
Bake
Catch
Occasion
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I honestly think there shouldn't be sugared drinks. All my grandchildren drink water all through the day. I've just had them to stay, and at breakfast, they have water. They don't even know what sugary drinks are.
Mary Berry /
Breakfast
Grandchildren
Honestly
Drinks
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As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.
Mary Berry /
Cooking
Junk
Recipes
Teach
Wilderness
Time Home Live
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All-in-one dishes are among my favourites. I'm very much in favour of using the oven as much as possible - for casseroles, roasts and other one-pot meals - rather than the hob, where dishes need much more attention.
Mary Berry /
Dishes
Favour
Meals
Oven
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I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don't think that's changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they're chuffed with that.
Mary Berry /
Changed
Chips
Fireman
Grandchildren
Years Ago
Caused
Fat
Good Enough Who
Cook
Met
Oven
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Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
Mary Berry /
Cheese
Dairy
Dutch
Fishy
Inventing
London
Paid
Recipes
Staff
Bureau
Offered
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One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.
Mary Berry /
Jobs
Agency
Boss
Cookery
Housewife
Terrified
Week
Asked
Column
Editor
Magazine
Press
Recipe
Trip
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At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine in the glass, and it goes very well with the cheese. And that is what they do in France, and I think they set a good example.
Mary Berry /
Cheese
Dinner
Example
France
Main Course
Red
Wine
Dinner Parties
Glass
Good Example
Main
Parties
Serve
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I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.
Mary Berry /
Baking
Catering
Class
Cookery
Enjoyed
Brightest
Button
Instead
Maths
Onto
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When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.
Mary Berry /
No Problem
Red
Sections
Bake
Began
Pink
Supermarket
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'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.
Mary Berry /
Educational
Noisy
Programmes
Realising
Viewers
Ages
Bake
Cruel
Everything Else
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Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.
Mary Berry /
Brilliant
Looking Back
Life Time Good
Regrets
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I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.
Mary Berry /
Cards
Old Age
Time Good Age
Dealt
Great Time
Innings
Marbles
No Desire
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So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.
Mary Berry /
Parent
Good Thing
Lean
Shell
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When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
Mary Berry /
Cups
Isolation
Liquid
Polio
Touch
Food Me Parents
Bring
Feed
Glass
Saw
Hospital
Parents
Nurses
Sit
Took
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I'm very keen on the family getting together around the table because you learn so much of what's going on. With a full tummy, they begin to talk to you. People now have busy lives, but once or twice a week, it's lovely to sit all around together.
Mary Berry /
Busy
Lovely
Twice
Family Together People
Twice A Week
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My favourite TV show is... 'Downton Abbey.' The characters are wonderful, and the style is created so beautifully on screen. Everything from the table settings to the linen seem perfect to me. While I'm watching it, I'm in a totally different world.
Mary Berry /
Abbey
Favourite
Settings
Wonderful
Totally
World Me Style
Tv
Beautifully
Different World
Downton Abbey
Screen
Seem
Table
Tv Show
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I grow herbs near the back door, and you can grow a wonderful selection of herbs and window boxes... My idea is that you should grow what you eat. There's no point in growing something like celeriac - which is very difficult to grow - if you hate it.
Mary Berry /
Boxes
Herbs
No Point
Selection
Window
Back Door
Near
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I still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.
Mary Berry /
Educational
Family Life
Ingredients
Parent
Weighing
Meal
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My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.
Mary Berry /
Beach
Cornwall
Devon
Farms
Growing Up
Two
Used
Best Great Always
Pretty
Wild
Counties
Stay
Every Day
Holidays
Over
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I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.
Mary Berry /
War
Bombs
Born
House
Remember
Seeing
Quite
Bath
Came
Cellar
Floor
Glass
Shaken
Windows
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The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.
Mary Berry /
Changed
Chelsea
Flower
Hotel
Luxury
Sheer
Years Ago
Face
Came
Few
Lane
Park
Pillows
Stayed
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I'm really boring. I think about cooking all the time. I have a little book, so when I go out or see something, I jot it down and try to include it in a recipe or do a variation of it. I even have a notepad by my bed, which is usually saying we're running out of mango chutney.
Mary Berry /
Running
Bed
Cooking
Variation
Include
Jot
Recipe
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I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.
Mary Berry /
Experts
Programmes
Love Time Food
Fish
Chefs
Total
James
Martin
Rick
Stein
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I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation and uniformity are paramount; I'm more interested in taste. I don't mind if one bun is smaller than the others, or if there's a little pastry cracking, though I don't want a soggy bottom.
Mary Berry /
Bottom
Paramount
Presentation
Taste
Uniformity
Judge
Believes
Cracking
Fellow
Pastry
Smaller
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I hope that I dress for my age. Because there's no need to be dowdy, is there? But I don't go with all the colours that everybody is wearing. I'm not very fond of lime green or orange, so I don't do that. I read all the fashion magazines, but most things are totally unsuitable for somebody of 79.
Mary Berry /
Green
Magazines
Orange
Colours
Fond
Lime
Unsuitable
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I do like going out and finding free food. I've done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous.
Mary Berry /
Fishing
Mushrooms
Sea
Type
Finding
Guide
Picking
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I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events.
Mary Berry /
Sports
Events
Grandchildren
Support
Brought
First Of All
Parents
Plays
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Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuriating at times when they're little, but on the whole, they're such a joy. I don't think I was the most brilliant mother when they were young. I had quite a bit of help because I was working and I enjoyed my work.
Mary Berry /
Brilliant
Enjoyed
Having Children
Husband
Husband And Wife
Infuriating
Joy
Quite
Greatest Thing
Happen
Quite A Bit
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It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.
Mary Berry /
Blow
Dishes
Meals
Everything Else
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All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.
Mary Berry /
Birthday
Girl
Cake
Chocolate
Chocolate Cake
Grace
Grandchildren
Mum
Saturday
Son
Totally
Louis
Boy
Bake
Banana
Cakes
Twin
Lemon
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I've been amazed by the success of 'The Great British Bake Off.' I've been 'rediscovered' at the age of 76. When I was asked to be a judge, I said I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to shout like some other television judges. I also said I was a very bad bread maker, so would the programme makers find someone to help on the bread scene?
Mary Berry /
Amazed
Bread
British
Scene
Judge
Asked
Bake
Maker
Judges
Programme
Rediscovered
Shout
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I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite.
Mary Berry /
Cookbook
Delicious
Favourite
Lunch
Mushrooms
Absolute
Canary
Few Things
Holidays
Mainly
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I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.
Mary Berry /
Bits
Bus
Offers
Love Men Women
Seat
Coat
Love Women Men
Suppose
Stand Up
Thrilled
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