Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

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

In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.