Jack Monroe Quotes

Jack Monroe

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 17, 1988

But I know that trying to black out my past with oblivion will just damage my future. I made the decision to stop running from my fears, and to walk slowly and deliberately towards self-nurture, self-respect, and better mental and physical health.

Jack Monroe

I wear Doc Martens leather boots, so I'm not a vegan. I am a vague-one.

Jack Monroe

Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger, and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a lot of work to do.

Jack Monroe

As a kid we would eat moussaka with mash. We had a real fusion of two cultures that no-one has dared to fuse since.

Jack Monroe

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.

Jack Monroe

Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I'm not a member of any.

Jack Monroe

My bark is far, far worse than my bite.

Jack Monroe

For some people, pronouns are a very important part of how they identify. I completely understand that. For me, I have more of a looser interpretation.

Jack Monroe

Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men. All white middleflclass men.

Jack Monroe

I think as much as people moan at things like award ceremonies, it gives people role models. It provides real positive reinforcement that you can be who you are and still massively achieve.

Jack Monroe

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

Jack Monroe

I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you.

Jack Monroe

People nag me about my weight, my cooking, my tattoos, my hair, my sexuality, everything. I can deal with all that because I'm still doing my job and I kind of like myself.

Jack Monroe

You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

Jack Monroe

I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.

Jack Monroe

And I'm autistic, which means I can be hyperfocused but also all over the place at the same time. I think I'm very lucky to have found cooking because it's the one area where a brain like mine really thrives.

Jack Monroe

I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop alone, and filling up a bag with penny chews, Fruit Salads, Bruiser bars and Black Jacks.

Jack Monroe

My parents tended to cook big batch food because there was always the possibility that other children would turn up with their carrier bag and shoes and we had to gently bring them out of their shells.

Jack Monroe

I have a surprisingly large appetite anyway and I don't drive, I walk everywhere, I don't sit down at the moment and I pace the hallway when I'm on the phone. I think that if I didn't eat large amounts of carbs and cheese I would wither away into a husk.

Jack Monroe

If I've learned anything in the last seven or eight years it's that my career flies by the seat of my pants and that every time I'm booked for something, I'm ill, and anything - like a TV opportunity - I treat as my last ever one because it's maybe my swansong.

Jack Monroe