Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

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.