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

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

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.

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.

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

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.