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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I do think it is the responsibility of parents to feed their children properly. Prue Leith Read Quote
Why don’t women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious? Prue Leith Read Quote
What makes me laugh is ‘Masterchef,’ with that ridiculous thing they always say, ‘cooking doesn’t get any tougher than this!.’ Prue Leith Read Quote
I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them. Prue Leith Read Quote
