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

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.

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

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.

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.