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

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

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

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

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

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.

I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.