Delia Smith Quotes

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.

Delia Smith

• Energy
• Hand
• Equipment

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.

Delia Smith

• Fault
• Cake
• Checked

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

Delia Smith

• People
• Career
• Happen

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

Delia Smith

• Thing
• Treat
• Pie

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!

Delia Smith

• Construction
• Masterpiece
• Egg

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.

Delia Smith

• Sometimes
• Cooking
• Restaurants

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

Delia Smith

• Memories
• Window
• Fallible

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

Delia Smith

• Kitchen
• Again
• Themselves

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

Delia Smith

• Beautiful
• Food
• Actually

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

Delia Smith

• Cooking
• Mission
• Hopefully