“My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning un...” — Harold Pinter Quote

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.

I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

I think more people should worry about where they store things in the fridge. I don't think people are on top of separating raw and cooked ingredients.

The apricot's fleetingly short harvest - only a few weeks long - explains the urge to save the season in a jar. But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart.