Elizabeth David - Summer Cooking (1955)

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The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.

Elizabeth David

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the fleeting moment.

Elizabeth David

Summer cooking means the extraction of maximum enjoyment out of the produce which grows in the summer season and is appropriate to it.

Elizabeth David