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

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.