The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.

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.

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

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.