We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.

There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.