I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world