40 Prue Leith Quotes for You to Enjoy

Prue Leith

South African Chef

Born: Feb 18, 1940

Food Good Me People Think You

My worst habit is opening the fridge and thinking: 'I'd like to eat something.' Prue Leith

Thinking Worst Eat Something Habit Opening Like Fridge

For me the best food in the world is New British. It's quite classical cooking with really simple but good-quality ingredients. I also like top-end restaurants and pub grub done well. Prue Leith

Best Food Me Cooking World Simple Restaurants Classical New Like Also Well Done Quite Pub Ingredients Really British

I've always had an image of Mother's Pride flour, very respectable and middle-class. Prue Leith

Pride Mother Respectable Had Always Very Flour Image

I opened Leith's in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros - but I was the first woman to have a ‘serious,' expensive restaurant. Prue Leith

The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so that it becomes the norm to snack all day - and if you are never hungry you are never going to feel like eating a healthy meal - that can't be right. Prue Leith

Day You Business Problem Big Healthy Meal Live Way All Day Hungry Corrupt Obesity Eating Never Feel Like Budgets Advertising Becomes Snack Norm Very Going Children Serious Among Right

After opening my first restaurant in 1969, one of the regular customers suggested I write a cookbook, so I did. Then another. After my 12th one, I started to feel stale. Prue Leith

First Restaurant I Write Write Feel Opening Another Did After Stale Customers Then Regular Cookbook Started Suggested

In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy? Prue Leith

Business Be Happy Happy Garden Wonderful Parents Young Living Think Enough Booming Married Could Had Children Happily Who Two

People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook. Prue Leith

People Judge I Am Say Telly People Say Eater More Perhaps Because Chef Am Contests Lot Celebrity Than Cook

I have never managed to put my feet up, ever. Prue Leith

Never Put Feet Up Ever

With great difficulty, I persuaded my dentist to saw one of my teeth level with the others. He thought it might kill the tooth, but it didn't. I wanted it done because I was doing a lot of television with food and I saw myself eating with these horrible crooked teeth. Prue Leith

Myself Food Great Thought Difficulty Others Tooth Teeth Saw Television Crooked Eating Horrible He Because Doing Lot Dentist Done Wanted Might Persuaded Level

I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time. Prue Leith

Time Job Restaurants Eat Part How Go Want

Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time. Prue Leith

Time Journey Birthday Family Wonderful Remember South Africa Enormous I Remember Bear Steam Had Crying Sailed Sale South Ship Get Wonderful Time Shop Six Africa Aged Aside England Teddy