Paul Merton Quotes

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.

There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo.

Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat.

Calamari isn't too bad. That's what I thought cuttlefish was gonna be that. I've eaten octopus and eel and shark and sea urchin before, and - and those are good.

I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!

I like Hyderabad Biriyani, and when I go to Hyderabad, I have biriyani without fail in the hotels.

Shrimp and grits is a dish that I enjoy from North Carolina. It's one of those dishes that is so rich in flavor and texture.

I've eaten a lot of strange things. I've eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can't even think of some of the things I've tried.

I could go on all night about my wonderful experiences.

Once a week, I used to treat myself to three parottas with the pocket money I saved. It tasted so good, and I loved eating it soaked in salna.

I love king crab a lot. I love good Mexican food, good tacos, and chile rellenos.

I'm not keen on the English way of eating outside, on the street. I want food that is clean, not impregnated with toxic fumes.

If I could eat French fries every day of my life, I would.

I met my first wife at the fishmonger's in the summer of 1987, some six months after opening Harveys.

I actually have sang at a wedding before! My old hairdresser from New Jersey, I sang at her wedding.

I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.

There's just something about fresh tortillas.