Taking a look at food in literature is rather enlightening, however, taking a look into personal celebrity experiences with food offers a wild variety stemming from relatable and delicious moments to pressure on organic, natural foods most of us wouldn't think twice about.
James Corden - May I Have Your Attention Please?
"You see, when the food was ready, the kitchen staff would put it up on the pass between the kitchen and the restaurant and if there was ever a bit of cheese or something dangling, I'd have a little nibble you know, just to tidy it up. Well, this particular day, two pizza's were ready to go and cheese was dripping off the side of one of them, so I picked it off and stuffed it in my mouth before carrying the food to the table."
This personal experience with a cheesy pizza is an extremely relatable one that is already getting my mouth dripping. It is also intriguing to note the way in which he describes this, the cheese is 'dangling' and 'dripping', fuelling the image of a pool of cheese in our minds. Food is a beauty, one in which we cannot help but marvel at at times.
Miranda Hart - Is it Me?
"The only acceptable hobby, throughout all stages of life, is cookery. As a child: adorable baked items. The twenties: much-appreciated spag bol and fry-ups. The thirties and forties: lovely stuff with butternut squash and chorizo from the Guardian food section. The fifties and sixties: beef wellington from the Sunday Telegraph magazine. The seventies and eighties: back to the adorable baked items." Here, Miranda takes us through century by a century of the idyllic foods in her life which for all can differ yet it is interesting to discover hers. Ranging from the simpler foods in life we all love on a regular basis like a good spag bol and a fry-up to more elaborate and fanciful dishes like butternut squash and chorizo and a beef wellington. This quote also shows us just how the food we adore can change, it is never one thing through someone's life that they love and they love that all their life. The variety of food in which we adore is large, making food such a large part of our lives and maybe not all of us are truly aware of this.
Prue Leith - Relish: My Life on a Plate
"That evening I watched Madame make the children's supper. They got exactly the same dinner as we would have later: tiny rare steaks, salad with French dressing, boiled potatoes, followed by a sliver of apple pie. The toddler had hers in a high chair and her baby sister had hers whizzed up or mashed. No special 'kids' food. It was fresh food, made from scratch by a woman who could cook." Prue's personal experiences with food truly do differ to most as how many people can say that Madame is preparing supper and that a toddler is having a rare steak, salad with a french dressing and boiled potatoes mashed up for dinner? Food is indeed a thing of beauty and it goes as no surprise that a celebrity such as Prue Leith with deliver an account in a style such as this and to have the luxury of being able to have food made from scratch is a true fortune. No microwave meals in that fridge. That is another thing that can make food so wonderful when cooking it from scratch is the time and physical energy that goes into creating dishes for the people you love, a plethora of warm emotions fill your stomach.
Michael Caine - Blowing the Bloody Doors Off
"Like everyone else, I was forced to eat organic food for five years: there were no chemicals to put on the land or in food because they were all being used in explosives and ammunition. There was very little sugar, no sweets no fizzy drinks, but free orange juice, cod liver oil, malt extract and vitamins. For most people rationing was terrible but for people like me the wartime diet provided me with a wonderful launch pad - and a wonderful grounding." Here, Michael is speaking from a time in which food was harder to source as a result of land being used for war. In the opening of his quote, he states that like everyone else he was forced to eat organic food for five years and I am not 100% sure on the number of people who as a child have these diets forced upon them now but as a child, I certainly didn't have it. I find it hard to imagine a child today not being allowed sugar, sweet or fizzy drinks and eating cod liver oil, malt extract and vitamins and being overjoyed about it. It goes to show today that our diets have become quick fixes, it's easier to dish out the processed things, mainly because it is what we all want but in how fast-paced life can be it truly is easier. Through reading into Michael Caine's personal experience with food his wartime diet providing him with wonderful grounding can go to show the effects of a good diet and it's importance.
Romesh Ranganathan - Straight Outta Crawley
"I was going to have to ration the hotel bourbon biscuits and wait it out till I got to the club and they offered me food. I honestly believe that these are the periods when you reflect the most. I hadn't been eating properly for a while because we were skint, and I remember sitting alone in the hotel after the first gig, broke and hungry and just thinking, how the fuck am I still so fat?" Romesh discusses a situation in which I feel is familiar to most, not having enough money and times being tough. It is a true statement in fact that in moments like this, feeling weak, tired and extremely poor that you do in fact reflect upon life. But this is another way in which through Romesh's book we see food as powerful as he expresses the way he feels without it.
Gary Barlow - A Better Me
"Bad food is the enemy now. Yes, I think it's that bad. Food is also how I helped myself. Food is a small word, like war or love, that encompasses a billion possibilities. You can kill yourself with food, or you can use it to create a better you." Here Gary Barlow truly goes into the strengths and weaknesses of food but ultimately the power of food. 'You can kill yourself with food' is such a true statement and can be one that is easily forgotten with how wonderful it's appearance, smell and taste can be. Yet when we fuel our bodies with bright, colourful, fresh food and a personal account from Gary Barlow himself, we can be the best versions of ourselves.
"You see, when the food was ready, the kitchen staff would put it up on the pass between the kitchen and the restaurant and if there was ever a bit of cheese or something dangling, I'd have a little nibble you know, just to tidy it up. Well, this particular day, two pizza's were ready to go and cheese was dripping off the side of one of them, so I picked it off and stuffed it in my mouth before carrying the food to the table."
This personal experience with a cheesy pizza is an extremely relatable one that is already getting my mouth dripping. It is also intriguing to note the way in which he describes this, the cheese is 'dangling' and 'dripping', fuelling the image of a pool of cheese in our minds. Food is a beauty, one in which we cannot help but marvel at at times.
Miranda Hart - Is it Me?
"The only acceptable hobby, throughout all stages of life, is cookery. As a child: adorable baked items. The twenties: much-appreciated spag bol and fry-ups. The thirties and forties: lovely stuff with butternut squash and chorizo from the Guardian food section. The fifties and sixties: beef wellington from the Sunday Telegraph magazine. The seventies and eighties: back to the adorable baked items." Here, Miranda takes us through century by a century of the idyllic foods in her life which for all can differ yet it is interesting to discover hers. Ranging from the simpler foods in life we all love on a regular basis like a good spag bol and a fry-up to more elaborate and fanciful dishes like butternut squash and chorizo and a beef wellington. This quote also shows us just how the food we adore can change, it is never one thing through someone's life that they love and they love that all their life. The variety of food in which we adore is large, making food such a large part of our lives and maybe not all of us are truly aware of this.
Prue Leith - Relish: My Life on a Plate
"That evening I watched Madame make the children's supper. They got exactly the same dinner as we would have later: tiny rare steaks, salad with French dressing, boiled potatoes, followed by a sliver of apple pie. The toddler had hers in a high chair and her baby sister had hers whizzed up or mashed. No special 'kids' food. It was fresh food, made from scratch by a woman who could cook." Prue's personal experiences with food truly do differ to most as how many people can say that Madame is preparing supper and that a toddler is having a rare steak, salad with a french dressing and boiled potatoes mashed up for dinner? Food is indeed a thing of beauty and it goes as no surprise that a celebrity such as Prue Leith with deliver an account in a style such as this and to have the luxury of being able to have food made from scratch is a true fortune. No microwave meals in that fridge. That is another thing that can make food so wonderful when cooking it from scratch is the time and physical energy that goes into creating dishes for the people you love, a plethora of warm emotions fill your stomach.Michael Caine - Blowing the Bloody Doors Off
"Like everyone else, I was forced to eat organic food for five years: there were no chemicals to put on the land or in food because they were all being used in explosives and ammunition. There was very little sugar, no sweets no fizzy drinks, but free orange juice, cod liver oil, malt extract and vitamins. For most people rationing was terrible but for people like me the wartime diet provided me with a wonderful launch pad - and a wonderful grounding." Here, Michael is speaking from a time in which food was harder to source as a result of land being used for war. In the opening of his quote, he states that like everyone else he was forced to eat organic food for five years and I am not 100% sure on the number of people who as a child have these diets forced upon them now but as a child, I certainly didn't have it. I find it hard to imagine a child today not being allowed sugar, sweet or fizzy drinks and eating cod liver oil, malt extract and vitamins and being overjoyed about it. It goes to show today that our diets have become quick fixes, it's easier to dish out the processed things, mainly because it is what we all want but in how fast-paced life can be it truly is easier. Through reading into Michael Caine's personal experience with food his wartime diet providing him with wonderful grounding can go to show the effects of a good diet and it's importance.
Romesh Ranganathan - Straight Outta Crawley
"I was going to have to ration the hotel bourbon biscuits and wait it out till I got to the club and they offered me food. I honestly believe that these are the periods when you reflect the most. I hadn't been eating properly for a while because we were skint, and I remember sitting alone in the hotel after the first gig, broke and hungry and just thinking, how the fuck am I still so fat?" Romesh discusses a situation in which I feel is familiar to most, not having enough money and times being tough. It is a true statement in fact that in moments like this, feeling weak, tired and extremely poor that you do in fact reflect upon life. But this is another way in which through Romesh's book we see food as powerful as he expresses the way he feels without it.
Gary Barlow - A Better Me"Bad food is the enemy now. Yes, I think it's that bad. Food is also how I helped myself. Food is a small word, like war or love, that encompasses a billion possibilities. You can kill yourself with food, or you can use it to create a better you." Here Gary Barlow truly goes into the strengths and weaknesses of food but ultimately the power of food. 'You can kill yourself with food' is such a true statement and can be one that is easily forgotten with how wonderful it's appearance, smell and taste can be. Yet when we fuel our bodies with bright, colourful, fresh food and a personal account from Gary Barlow himself, we can be the best versions of ourselves.
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