Clement Freud Quotes

If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.

Peas are terrible and a joke food.

You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.

The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

I'm not anti-American. But I am very strongly anti American bacon - the worst bacon in the world.

Plane food is terrible.

The seafood in England is sad.

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

No one likes rubbery chicken.

I'm pretty sure that I've never confessed in an interview my weakness for McDonald's Filet-O-Fish. The cheese is fake. Who knows what that 'fish' really is. It is gross. It is amazing.

I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.

For me, the good food starts with good product.

Salad cream is horrible, like albino ketchup.

Fat gives things flavor.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.

I believe a good chicken breast, if made well, is the best thing ever.

I love to eat! I don't think I have ever gotten sick of eating a food, unless it is bad food.

I love a bit of garnish.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!