In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

- Jane Grigson

This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a d…

- Jane Grigson

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

- Jane Grigson

The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wo…

- Jane Grigson

Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and nee…

- Jane Grigson

A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect o…

- Jane Grigson

The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

- Jane Grigson