I detest. . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table … - Sybille Bedford

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When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

Sybille Bedford

I detest. . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread, butter, olive oil, a generous spirit, lively appetites and attention to what we are eating.

Attention, Bread, Elaborate, Generous Spirit, Honesty, Oil

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One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

Condition, Odd Things, One Day, Rehearsal, Thinking, Thinks

A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.

Ego, Old, Part, Rocks, Sea, Traveling

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

Clothes, Europe, France, Like, Supposed, Travel

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

Eggs, Food, Gods, Miraculous, Truffles

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

Doe, Matter, Opinions, Public, Public Opinion, Sum