British - Chef | March 24, 1935 -
As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.
Mary Berry
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I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusual about me. I'm just a mum and a granny who is teaching cookery on TV. Basically, I'm very ordinary.
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I'm really boring. I think about cooking all the time. I have a little book, so when I go out or see something, I jot it down and try to include it in a recipe or do a variation of it. I even have a notepad by my bed, which is usually saying we're running out of mango chutney.
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When you're on the way up, you have to take all the jobs because bills have to be paid.
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I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts - but I think at 78, one's got to act one's age.
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I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that.
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My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better. He can make an excellent omelette.
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The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.
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Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.
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When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'
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I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'
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I make myself eat one piece of toast for breakfast. When I'm doing 'Bake Off,' I eat soup for lunch. I know what puts on weight for me; it's just over-indulgence.
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