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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
Nobody should eat too much cake.
Prue Leith
Cake
Too Much
Too
Eat
Nobody
Much
Should
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
Hua Hin is Thailand's royal beach resort and home to the king's summer palace. The local food is fantastic, the weather is beautiful, everything's cheap and the Thai people are so friendly and warm.
Prue Leith
Beautiful
Food
Home
People
King
Weather
Resort
Local
Summer
Everything
Beach
Cheap
Friendly
Thai
Thailand
Warm
Fantastic
Palace
Royal
I couldn't live without my faithful companion, Megs the dog.
Prue Leith
Dog
Faithful
Live
Without
Companion
The really nice thing about the town of Hua Hin - and Thailand generally - is that it's so safe. You can walk around the night market, for example, with complete confidence.
Prue Leith
You
Confidence
Walk
Example
Nice
Market
Complete
About
Generally
Town
For Example
Safe
Around
Thailand
Really
Nice Thing
Thing
Night
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
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 get cross with foodies who think hospital food should be Michelin-star and caterers can fall into this trap.
Prue Leith
Food
Fall
Think
Cross
Hospital
Get
Should
Trap
Who
I have never managed to put my feet up, ever.
Prue Leith
Never
Put
Feet
Up
Ever
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'm a good cook, I am not a great cook. I'm an absolute fraud.
Prue Leith
Good
Great
I Am
Great Cook
Fraud
Absolute
Am
Cook
Good Cook
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
I think women write more fully and honestly than men about heart and home.
Prue Leith
Home
Heart
Women
Men
Think
Honestly
I Think
About
More
Write
Than
Fully
I was an intellectual groupie. Still am.
Prue Leith
Am
Still
Intellectual
Groupie
I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.
Prue Leith
Work
Marriage
Hell
Believe
I Believe
Bad
Having
Martyr
Sacrifices
Makes
Making
Passionately
Being
Notion
All I need for a perfect holiday is sun and some peace and quiet. Those make for perfect book-writing conditions.
Prue Leith
Peace
Sun
Those
Some
Perfect
Make
Conditions
Quiet
Holiday
Peace And Quiet
Need
I was intending not do any more telly and then I got talked into 'My Kitchen Rules,' which I did with Michael Caines.
Prue Leith
Rules
Telly
More
Kitchen
Talked
Got
Michael
Did
Intending
Any
Which
Then
My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend to see a lot of architecture and so-called places of interest.
Prue Leith
Culture
Architecture
Husband
Inside
John
See
Tend
He
Venturing
Without
Pass
Lot
Very
Often
Heavy
So-Called
Cannot
Interest
Places
Breaks
Museum
I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.
Prue Leith
Buy
You
Fall
Books
Those
Out
Must
Most
Read
Go
Lists
Them
I won't eat something which is high in calories and not particularly wonderful, because that's just not worth it, you feel guilty after.
Prue Leith
You
Wonderful
Worth
Not Worth It
Guilty
Worth It
High
Eat
Something
Feel
Particularly
Because
Calories
Just
After
Which
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
I'm quite lazy. I don't want to learn a new subject like shipbuilding.
Prue Leith
Lazy
New
Like
Learn
Subject
Quite
Want
At any given time, I have to be looking at different things constantly, and it involves a lot of flying, and it doesn't involve much sleep.
Tony Khan
Time
Looking
Flying
Constantly
Given
Involve
Involves
Lot
Any
Any Given Time
Different
Much
Different Things
Things
Sleep
We are going to be offering a great sporting centric product. We are going to be focused on the athletes, focused on the work and we have some of the best wrestlers in the world and I really want to showcase them. But they also are some of the most dynamic personalities.
Tony Khan
Work
Best
Great
World
Focused
Athletes
Some
Wrestlers
Most
Also
Offering
Going
Want
Dynamic
Personalities
Them
Really
Product
Showcase
I'm very familiar with World of Sport, some of the characters, and great athletes.
Tony Khan
Great
World
Characters
Athletes
Some
Sport
Very
Familiar
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