It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.

They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

Bake some bread. Make a focaccia bread or bake a whole mill loaf. Do something creative, and then put the labor of love into it in the beginning. When you take that bread out of the oven and you eat it an hour- and- a- half, two- hours later, you start to appreciate it more and then you eat less because you worked so hard to make it, you appreciate it in a much better way.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.