Quotes from Delia Smith

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

I don't actually get recognised. I only have my hair done and make-up put on when I am on TV. The rest of the time, I go out without make-up on, so people don't recognise me.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.

The real love for somebody comes from getting to know them very well.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.