Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?