Fergus Henderson Quotes

• Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

  Fergus Henderson

  Cooking, Ingredients, Pleasure

  Fergus Henderson (2012). “The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking”, p.5, A&C Black

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• If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

  Fergus Henderson

  Animal, Use, Polite

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• Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

  Fergus Henderson

  Common Sense, Stuff, Bloodlust

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• Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

  Fergus Henderson

  Urban, Lifestyle, Porridge

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• Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

  Fergus Henderson

  Winning, Charm, Enjoy

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• I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

  Fergus Henderson

  Feel Good, London, Porridge

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• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  Fergus Henderson

  Mean, People, Fusion

  "Table talk". Interview with Rachel Dixon, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  Fergus Henderson

  Ambition, Fate, Luck

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• We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

  Fergus Henderson

  Country, Wife, House

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• I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

  Fergus Henderson

  Jobs, Holiday, Thinking

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