Quotes by Prue Leith - Page 2

I won't eat something which is high in calories and not particularly wonderful, because that's just not worth it, you feel guilty after.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Calories
Guilty
Not Worth It
Worth It
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It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Boring
Entrepreneur
Sound
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The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food comes from.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Teach
Cook
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Schools
The Most Important
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I'd been brought up in a society which didn't talk about sex, food, money, religion or politics. Those things were all deemed slightly rude.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Deemed
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People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Chef
Contests
I Am People More
Eater
Telly
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Nobody thought a white girl should learn to cook in South Africa. I went to drama school. My mother was an actress, so I thought I'd be an actress.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
South Africa
Drama School
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I'm completely addicted to Radio 4, even 100-year-old things like 'Just a Minute.' I even arrange my weekends around the Sunday edition of 'The Archers.'
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Sunday
Arrange
Edition
Weekends
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I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Marriage
Martyr
Notion
Work Marriage Believe
Bad
Having
Making
Passionately
Sacrifices
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I'd love to look incredibly glamorous, but I am a wholesome, comforting nanny type: I think I look like an advertisement for wholemeal flour or something.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Comforting
Flour
Glamorous
Advertisement
Love I Am Look
Love Look I Am
Wholesome
Nanny
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People don't always behave the same way on different programmes. If you go to church you don't behave the same way you do at a party in the middle of the night.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Behave
Programmes
Night People Way
Always Night People
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I vividly remember throwing a bowl of porridge at my husband Rayne once when he defended the children instead of me - the patch on the ceiling stayed for years.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Throwing
Bowl
Me Remember Children
Ceiling
Defended
Patch
Stayed
Vividly
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We had two children, who are still adored, they adore me and we're very close. Rayne was 20 years older than me. He died when he was 80, so he had a really good life.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Good Life
Life Good Me
Adored
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After opening my first restaurant in 1969, one of the regular customers suggested I write a cookbook, so I did. Then another. After my 12th one, I started to feel stale.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Cookbook
Opening
Stale
Suggested
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It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Helpful
Meant To Be
Posh
Uncomfortable
Bowing
Hugely
South African
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The really nice thing about the town of Hua Hin - and Thailand generally - is that it's so safe. You can walk around the night market, for example, with complete confidence.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Thailand
For Example
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I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Johannesburg
Joyful
Buildings
Mugged
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I'm not saying I'm proud of the fact I had a long affair with a married man, but it did help my business. By the time I married and had children I had the business under my belt.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Affair
Married Man
Time Business Man
Belt
By The Time
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For me the best food in the world is New British. It's quite classical cooking with really simple but good-quality ingredients. I also like top-end restaurants and pub grub done well.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Ingredients
Restaurants
Classical
Pub
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My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend to see a lot of architecture and so-called places of interest.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Architecture
Breaks
Museum
So-Called
Venturing
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I am not saying celebrity chefs don't encourage children to cook. However, their programmes are so entertaining, you end up stuffing your face with Pot Noodles instead of learning from them.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Entertaining
Noodles
Programmes
Chefs
Stuffing
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I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be honest I don't think there should be a School Food Trust. It shouldn't be necessary.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Allowing
Ignorant
Backward
To Be Honest
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Hua Hin is Thailand's royal beach resort and home to the king's summer palace. The local food is fantastic, the weather is beautiful, everything's cheap and the Thai people are so friendly and warm.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Beach
Friendly
Royal
Thai
Warm
Weather
Home Food Beautiful
Cheap
Palace
Resort
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Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Menopause
Old People
Older People
Beginning
Whistle
Parties
Prejudiced
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I think Paul Hollywood was quite perfectly within his rights to stay with Love Productions. They'd made him famous, he was getting a decent salary and he was enjoying it. Why shouldn't he stay with them?
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Decent
Productions
Salary
Enjoying
Paul
Perfectly
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It takes several doses of any veg before children like it, but once they do they'll like it for life. You wouldn't give up on a child who didn't want to learn to read. Learning to eat is every bit as important.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Doses
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I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant. I was supposed to read them in French but I cheated and used the English versions instead.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Cheated
Versions
Authors
Classics
Hugo
Victor
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One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching me to be a grown-up. The main thing I remember is my father being so delighted to get roast duck.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Delighted
Shopping
Family Me Remember
Duck
Family Father Me
Grown-Up
Housekeeper
Main Thing
Roast
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People often ask what my favourite food is, but the answer depends on what I last ate. I love sausages and mash. But if I'd already eaten them for lunch, then you asked me at tea-time, I'd probably answer 'crab salad.'
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Depends
Favourite
Lunch
Salad
Love Food Me
Asked
Ate
Crab
Eaten
Mash
Sausages
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In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy?
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Garden
Booming
Happily
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I'm nicknamed the 'food tsar' by the press. I'm always giving my opinion on things like; 'Don't nanny children,' although children sometimes do need a nanny. Being a judge on 'Great British Menu' reinforces this image of me.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
British
Giving
Opinion
Food Great Me
Judge
Although
Image
Menu
Nanny
Press
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I used to always employ South Africans and Aussies and Kiwis - I can't admit this, well I can now, but I couldn't admit it at the time - but I didn't want wet English lads who didn't want to work in the catering trade anyway.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Catering
Wet
Time Work Always
Employ
Work Time Always
Lads
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My first taste memory is of our nanny in South Africa making white bread sandwiches with salad cream, which was potato mashed with a cheap mayonnaise thing with bits in it of - I suppose - pickled cucumber. I absolutely loved them.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Bits
Bread
Cream
Mayonnaise
Sandwiches
South Africa
Cheap
Cucumber
Nanny
Potato
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I adored the celebrity 'Bake Offs.' They have a more relaxed atmosphere. They all come on thinking they're not competitive so there's a lot of larking around, then of course they get the 'Bake Off' bug and want to win and it's funny.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Atmosphere
Relaxed
Adored
Bake
Bug
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I opened Leith's in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros - but I was the first woman to have a 'serious,' expensive restaurant.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Running
Women
Expensive
Serious
Being
Awarded
Woman
Star
First
Eventually
Few
Few Women
Small
Hill
Opened
Restaurant
Worked
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It's surprising how you can behave like a 16-year-old in your 60s, or a 17-year-old in your 70s. You know, it's exactly the same. You fall in love with somebody, you start worrying why the phone is not ringing and thinking, 'Can I ring him?'
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Behave
Surprising
Exactly The Same
Ringing
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What I want to do is produce really delicious food. I want it to look nice, because when you see food you should want to eat it. You shouldn't be saying, 'Oh my goodness, isn't the chef clever, he can weave the Eiffel Tower out of carrot sticks.'
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Chef
Clever
Delicious
Delicious Food
Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Goodness
Nice
Produce
Sticks
Eat
Oh
Carrot
Saying
Tower
Weave
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I came through the Sixties so I was perfectly aware of drug-taking but I came from South Africa and we were brought up in quite an old-fashioned way. If I went to a rave or a party, I'd be behind the barbecue flipping the burgers. I wasn't out there partying.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Barbecue
Old Fashioned
Party
Rave
South
South Africa
Africa
Quite
Aware
Behind
Brought
Came
Flipping
Old-Fashioned Way
Perfectly
Sixties
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I didn't actually know what a treasure 'The Great British Bake Off' was, so I just thought, 'oh it'll be fun to do that, I'd like to do that.' Then when I went and had to have an audition and meet Paul Hollywood, I suddenly thought, 'this is really important.'
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Treasure
Audition
Bake
Paul
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Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with no pictures at all. I doubt if that would sell today. But those books were much used: they lived in the kitchen and got splattered with custard and gravy.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Cookbook
Custard
Gravy
Good Today Look
Dictates
Paperback
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Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Birthday
Journey
England
Enormous
Six
South
South Africa
Steam
Teddy
Wonderful
Africa
Time Family Birthday
Aged
Aside
Bear
Crying
Sale
Family Birthday Time
Shop
Sailed
Ship
Wonderful Time
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Before 'Bake Off,' frankly, if you'd asked most people on the bus if they'd ever heard of me, it would probably only have been those aged over 55. But if they were 15, they wouldn't have, and that's the difference with 'Bake Off' - it's loved across the generations.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Generations
Aged
Bake
Frankly
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With great difficulty, I persuaded my dentist to saw one of my teeth level with the others. He thought it might kill the tooth, but it didn't. I wanted it done because I was doing a lot of television with food and I saw myself eating with these horrible crooked teeth.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Crooked
Dentist
Difficulty
Horrible
Teeth
Persuaded
Tooth
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The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so that it becomes the norm to snack all day - and if you are never hungry you are never going to feel like eating a healthy meal - that can't be right.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Advertising
Budgets
Eating
Healthy
Hungry
Norm
Obesity
Serious
All Day
Among
Corrupt
Meal
Snack
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If you eat good ingredients, and moderately, it should not be a problem. If you look at the bakers over the years, how many obese bakers have there been? There have been a few - nobody's saying you can't join 'Bake Off' if you're obese - but by and large bakers, just like cooks, are not particularly overweight.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Cooks
Ingredients
Obese
Overweight
Bake
Join
Moderately
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I was asked if I would do 'Dancing On Ice.' I thought it'd be the perfect way to get fit, lose a lot of weight and learn a new skill. I was actually quite excited, but my team said, 'Absolutely not.' They told me I was far too old and if I fell over I would break something - and then I thought they were probably right.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Ice
Absolutely Not
Skill
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