English Cooking Quotes

“The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?”
― Peter Mayle, A Good Year

“What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Her imagination arranged the oatcakes, rissoles and dumplings into a still life, and even with complimentary lighting, it was a rather cheerless composition. She found herself wanting to add a single satsuma to the canvas to give it a splash of color and a contrast of texture, a pomegranate, an aubergine, or even a humble tomato. But that wasn't English cooking, was it? She looked at the pile of letters. "We are not a country that cooks in primary colors," she said aloud, experimentally, testing the words as her mouth formed them. How pleasurable it would be to write about a ratatouille made from sweet end-of-summer tomatoes, apricot-colored chanterelles fried in butter with flecks of bright green parsley, or red mullet grilled over vine prunings and served with spoonfuls of golden aioli”
― Caroline Scott, Good Taste