Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

- Delia Smith

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven check…

- Delia Smith

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

- Delia Smith

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

- Delia Smith

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

- Delia Smith

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about …

- Delia Smith

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

- Delia Smith

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

- Delia Smith

In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.

- Delia Smith