Words matter. These are the best John Whaite Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Make the choice, if you can, to get milk direct from farms or farm drop services. We need the supermarkets, of course we do, but we need our farmers, too.
I was doing my barrister training in Leeds, so I was getting up at 5 A.M. and getting home and 10 P.M., and for me, that was a really stressful time.
I like pie! Pie with proper pastry and a meaty filling always works. It just makes you feel good.
In my family, depression is spoken of in hushed tones. As farmers we have always ploughed through our feelings.
After ‘Bake Off,’ I got these book deals that were very much baking books. But the books I’m producing now like ‘Perfect Plates in Five Ingredients’ and ‘Comfort,’ they’re really a truer representation of who I am as a food writer and a food industry professional.
Wigan is the town I come from. We’re all known as pie eaters in Wigan.
Life shouldn’t be about arbitrary power, for power’s sake, but about respect, mutuality, decency.
I had zero interest in banking, but the mountainous pile of legal training contract rejections forced me to look elsewhere. As a malleable graduate, I, as many students do, took whatever I could get.
I mean we take it for granted that a TV show is entertainment, but sometimes it’s responsible for huge shifts in politics, in society. It transcends entertainment, somehow.
I grew up on a farm, so I’ve always been keen on nature, animals and the simpler things in the life – that simple existence.
I learned my love of food from my mum.
We hear a lot about this phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ but I think the real poison in manhood is silence.
Ballet is very stiff and I can do a triple timestep but who knows what I will be like at Ballroom or Latin.
If you start thinking of yourself as a brand, you’ll come unstuck.
My dance skills are reliant on me being a bit pickled in a nightclub, if I try to do a dance move sober it doesn’t go very well, but I used to do ballet and tap so I have to be shown what do, so if I watch things I pick things up quite quickly.
My parents divorced when I was seven and baking was something that helped me to take my mind off things.
When we revel in hindsight, we have a tendency to embellish. We weave romantic and poetic fibres into the gaps in our memory.
I was a 23-year-old law student when I won the ‘Great British Bake Off’ in 2012. For 10 weeks I had balanced my degree finals with the tension and scrutiny inside the white tent (not to mention a few nights out here and there).
Addiction to the razzle dazzle came naturally to the youthful me.
People think if you win the ‘Bake Off’ you walk straight into a big book deal and all of this but it isn’t like that. You’ve still got to work really, really hard – probably harder than before – to make the right connections, to tour with brands, to discuss opportunities and negotiations.
Just to see two men or two women dancing together, it’s not necessarily about sexuality, it’s just about intimacy and respect.
Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without family.
As a farmer’s son, I’ve always been forced to eat vegetables.
A cake overpopulated with air is due to either too much chemical raising agent, an over zealous whisker, or a yeasted dough/batter that has had too long a rising stage.
I’m very, very loyal to Steph and the gang at ‘Packed Lunch.’
To see a world where two men can dance together, it can instil the fear of God into people.
If you’re baking full-time, you need to hit the gym 24/7.
I don’t question the importance of learning how to cook at school. It’s vital that children know how to create a few dishes to sustain themselves in later life, but that’s different from the emotional, nurturing environment of the home kitchen with Mum.
The Great British Bake Off’ has rapidly evolved into one of the nation’s favourite TV shows.
When I’m in the kitchen, measuring the amount of sugar, flour or butter I need for a recipe or cracking the exact number of eggs – I am in control.
I started baking with my family and friends. We would make easy and competent dishes and spend our evenings and weekends together in the kitchen. It was quite argumentative and ferocious – it was family life. That instilled the love and comfort of food for me.
Nigella Lawson is truly sexy.
One of my favourite low-carb suppers is a Spanish tortilla using cauliflower in place of the potato.
I am a complete magpie when it comes to gold leaf. I use it throughout the year but it is especially fitting at Christmas.
There’s little in life so disappointing as a sunken cake.
I just want to say to men, it doesn’t matter if you’re straight, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay, asexual, whatever you are, you have to speak, you have to talk, you have to find the help that you need, the help is there.
People think bakers are dainty little housewives but they are not. They are quite controlling people who want to be told that they are loved.
At school I used to hang out with the girls – they looked after me but the boys would call me gay and I’d get into fights. They’d push me and I’d push them back. I don’t condone violence, but you have to stick up for yourself because no one else will.
I’ve grown to love veg – I didn’t have a choice – and I’ve always been mad on cauliflower. It has a gentle nutty sweetness that intensifies when cooked; and you can’t deny that a bowlful of cauliflower cheese is one of the ultimate comfort foods.
How could anyone not use the humble chestnut at Christmas? It has a great flavour and can be used to make chocolate cake more festive.
During ‘Bake Off’ people said, ‘You’re going to become a celebrity and leave your boyfriend,’ but I knew it would never happen.
There is a lot of toxic masculinity around.
I definitely want to bake professionally, but as a home baker I am going to need training.
A school culinary education is a militant operation. In that world, everything depends on grading and competition. The emotional element is extracted, leaving raw, regimented skill.
It seems unlikely that a 70-something-year-old grandmother could be one of Britain’s most iconic celebrities, but Mary Berry defies all expectations.
If I’m peckish and I want something sweet and quick, I make a batch of scones, because they’re easy and reliable.
I’ve been very vocal in the past about my mental health issues.
A lot of people struggle, whether you’re a man, woman, non-binary… but I think men, in particular, are conditioned from a very early age not to talk about how they feel, not to cry, not to ask for help.
Caring for animals is immensely grounding. Who you are and what you may have means nothing to them. The only way to their hearts is through responsibility, routine and love.
I’m not a fan of plain white walls and pristine ornaments dotted around; my house needs to feel lived in and protective.
