Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

I would probably never have learned to cook.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.