My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldnt put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. – Jamie Oliver
Im probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. – Jamie Oliver
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat. – Jamie Oliver
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere. – Jamie Oliver
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers