I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt great food and dishes from all of the lovely people who come from overseas to live in our country. We're a magpie nation - we take the best bits of other cuisines and embrace them as our own.

Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.