I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.