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" I don't like tattoos because tattoos are forever. "
Mary Berry
Because
Forever
Tattoos
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" I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events. "
Mary Berry
Family
Sports
School
" When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.' "
Mary Berry
Talk
You
Write
" A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted 'The Bake Off' to be an antidote to that. "
Mary Berry
Bullying
Reality
Lot
" I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite. "
Mary Berry
Back
Food
Holidays
" When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything. "
Mary Berry
Problem
Food
Look
" 'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it. "
Mary Berry
Family
End
Beginning
" Before the start of each new series, I go shopping for my 'Bake Off' wardrobe. I've got increasingly confident with my look and now wear much more colour than I did at the start. "
Mary Berry
Shopping
Start
Confident
" All-in-one dishes are among my favourites. I'm very much in favour of using the oven as much as possible - for casseroles, roasts and other one-pot meals - rather than the hob, where dishes need much more attention. "
Mary Berry
Need
Attention
Where
" Wherever possible, I like to use home-grown or locally produced ingredients. "
Mary Berry
Like
Wherever
Possible
" I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that. "
Mary Berry
Like
Underneath
Pastry
" I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder. "
Mary Berry
Me
Those
End
" I make myself eat one piece of toast for breakfast. When I'm doing 'Bake Off,' I eat soup for lunch. I know what puts on weight for me; it's just over-indulgence. "
Mary Berry
Me
Know
Soup
" I've always collected vintage kitchenalia because it's beautifully made, and I love to see things that have been used down the ages. "
Mary Berry
Used
Down
Love
" I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I'm really not that old. "
Mary Berry
Old
Know
People
" I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence. "
Mary Berry
Name
Been
Letters
" I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science. "
Mary Berry
Rather
Hopeless
Good
" I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.' "
Mary Berry
Think
People
Want
" I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from. "
Mary Berry
Always
Food
Interest
" I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children. "
Mary Berry
Home
Father
Children
" I'm really boring. I think about cooking all the time. I have a little book, so when I go out or see something, I jot it down and try to include it in a recipe or do a variation of it. I even have a notepad by my bed, which is usually saying we're running out of mango chutney. "
Mary Berry
Book
Time
Think
" I love a good madeira cake. Nice and simple. The most important thing is that a cake is moist. Most people overcook cakes, which dries them out. "
Mary Berry
Nice
Good
Cake
" I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead. "
Mary Berry
Clever
Baking
Cooking
" I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about everything in moderation. "
Mary Berry
Want
You
Never
" My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery. "
Mary Berry
Prize
Yeast
Expert
" I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don't think that's changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they're chuffed with that. "
Mary Berry
Good
Deep
Fat
" The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful. "
Mary Berry
Best
Home
Smile
" Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London. "
Mary Berry
Cheese
Year
Writing
" I grow herbs near the back door, and you can grow a wonderful selection of herbs and window boxes... My idea is that you should grow what you eat. There's no point in growing something like celeriac - which is very difficult to grow - if you hate it. "
Mary Berry
Growing
Hate
Window
" I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed. "
Mary Berry
Morning
Know
You
" All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way. "
Mary Berry
Saturday
Grace
Cake