Welcome to the famous Ainsley Harriott quotes about food, life, cooking, writing, entertaining and sharing good food. You’ll know Ainsley as the smiling foodie on multiple cooking programs and for his best selling recipe books.
Popular Ainsley Harriott cook books include: Ainsley’s Good Mood Food, My Kitchen Table: 100 Meals in Minutes, Just Five Ingredients, Ainsley Harriott’s Feel Good Cookbook, The Top 100 Recipes from Ready Steady Cook, Ainsley Harriott’s Low-fat Meals In Minutes, and Ainsley’s Ultimate Barbecue Bible.
Famous Ainsley Harriott Quotes
I love British food. I enjoy the old classics, but I also love the culinary diversity we have here. Take a walk down your local high street and you can see the variety of restaurants and food from all over the world.
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Food is about enjoyment, it should be fun. Which is why when I started on TV with Anne and Nick, everything about it was right. I just took to it. And the audience responded magnificently.
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Most important of all is being able to convey enthusiasm on screen and I’ve always been a glass half full rather than half empty guy. Because of my energy, people tell me, ‘Oh, you’re so up, Ainsley.’ When I was on Ready Steady Cook especially – they’d say: ‘Oh, he must be on drugs, you know?’
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Food is the great equaliser, It lifts your mood, makes you feel happy and satisfied, it can be shared with friends and gets your endorphins pumping. Everything about cooking and eating together is just fabulous. I first realised this as a boy, watching and helping my mum create all these amazing dishes when we had friends and family over.
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My biggest thrill of all, when I’m doing a book-signing somewhere, is when someone brings an old book, and it’s covered in grease and splashes of food and sugary stuff. And that says so much. And it means so much.
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There’s nothing better than the comforting smell of just-roasted chicken. Warm, crispy skin, juicy flesh and all the sides bring back childhood memories. And I still have my mother’s aluminium Jamaican dutchie pot and use it to deep fry, slow cook, steam or oil.
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Cooking is much more of a family event now, and it’s much more accepted as something a teenager can be passionate about. Even when I was growing up it wasn’t that cool to cook, but these days people are much more individualistic.
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People often ask me for cooking tips when I’m shopping in the supermarket, or they will smile and wave at me as if I’m an old friend. I really like it, and I’m always happy to stop and have a chat.
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I sometimes call my dog “Basmati Bob”, because he likes his rice. Some people say you should just give your dog the same biscuit every day, but that would be boring, surely? I go to the fishmonger in Northcote Road and ask, “Have you anything for the dog?” and I go home with salmon, haddock, whatever trimmings, and poach it up to serve with his rice.
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We were a very grounded family, and I’d never want to be rude to anyone. It’s lovely to wave back at people and give them a little boost. Kindness costs nothing.
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My mother was a fabulous cook and, because my dad was an entertainer, she was always having people over for dinner. As a child, I used to sit under this big piano we had and observe the people that came round, and the joy that my mother’s plates of food would bring them. I remember the looks on people’s faces when were telling her it tasted gorgeous. All of that certainly contributed to me wanting to become a cook, because of the instant satisfaction and gratification you can get from what you’ve just done.
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I was a little nervous on the day I went to Buckingham Palace for the ceremony, but more excited than anything, and Prince Charles and I ended up having a right old giggle. He was telling me he used to watch my TV shows with his children, then we were nattering about growing herbs. He’s a really keen gardener and he knows what he’s talking about.
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