Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

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.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!

I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.

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.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.