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

I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.

Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.