Delia Smith Quotes

United Kingdom, Cook
June 18, 1941

Delia Ann Smith CH CBE is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. One of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture, Smith has influenced viewers to become more culinarily adventurous. She is also famous for her role as joint majority shareholder at Norwich City F.C. Her partner in the shareholding is her husband, Michael Wynn-Jones.

Also known as Television Presenter

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

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

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

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

Delia Smith
- Memories
- Window
- Fallible

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

Delia Smith
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