A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.

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 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

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.