Quotes About Taste

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

I don't mind cheese with a nice glass of port, but I prefer chocolate.

I'm going to be a very bad Portuguese right now - I'm actually not a fan of pastel de natas. I'm just not a fan of cream.

Europe's sense of fashion is too high-end and posh for my liking.

I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

I go through phases where all I want to eat are mashed potato patties with fried eggs, or pasta with meat sauce.

I very much like potatoes.

I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

There's a difference between what people will consume and what they will pay for.

I think The Row skews toward an older market - an educated consumer who's been shopping for years.

Once consumers try popchips, most people really like it and become fans.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

I enjoy learning how to cook because I like to eat. Eating is good. Eating is fun.

I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.

I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

I cook what I like.

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.