Literary Birthday – 18 February – Prue Leith

Happy Birthday, Prue Leith, born 18 February 1940.

Prue Leith Quotes

1. When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
2. I wanted to make lots of money. Why don’t women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?
3. But what’s the point of writing an autobiography if this big part of your life is not going to be in it?
4. Read a lot. Take writing lessons. Stick at it.
5. I’ve been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect – but I’m bad at maths. I’m a great admirer of Richard Rogers.

Read: The Writers Write Interview – Prue Leith

Prue Leith is a South African restaurateur, television presenter, cookery writer, and novelist. She has spent most of her working life in London. Her works include Relish: My Life on a Plate, The Food of Love, and Leaving Patrick. Her last three books are written as family sagas, and they are,  The Food of Love, The Prodigal Daughter, and The Lost Son form a trilogy about two families living in the Cotswolds. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1989, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to food, broadcasting, and charity. Follow her on Instagram.

Source for image: @PrueLeith

by Amanda Patterson

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