Mary Berry Quotes

Mary Berry

Profession : Chef

Birth : March 24, 1935

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

My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

Mary Berry

I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I'm really not that old.

Mary Berry

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

I have no burning ambitions, and I can honestly say the thing I love most is 'Bake Off.' That will always come first.

Mary Berry

Our aim is to get people to enjoy 'Bake Off' at home and for our bakers to enjoy what they are doing. We don't want to catch them out. It's a very happy occasion, and it's about encouraging people to bake at home.

Mary Berry

I walk, and I play tennis, but mainly I watch what I eat. I eat all the things that I love, including cake. Cake is very important to me. But it's all about the size of the slice!

Mary Berry

What a privilege and honour it has been to be part of seven years of magic in a tent - 'The Great British Bake Off.'

Mary Berry

I still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.

Mary Berry

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

Mary Berry

I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science.

Mary Berry

One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.

Mary Berry

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake Off' is a happy show; there is no bad language, and although we do have drama, we deal with it calmly.

Mary Berry

Lots of people have written to say 'Bake Off' has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it's exactly what I used to do with mine.

Mary Berry

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

I would serve a selection of cakes, scones, and small sandwiches for afternoon tea. High tea is usually served between 5 P.M. and 6 P.M., replacing an evening meal - it is more substantial.

Mary Berry

Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.

Mary Berry

I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.

Mary Berry

'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

I hate Gordon Ramsay's programmes: I don't know if he's been told it makes good television.

Mary Berry