I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

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.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

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