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

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

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them

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

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

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