I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

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.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

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

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