When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

I want to teach people how to do it the right way. And it is from that they can teach their children how to do it properly. It will teach them how to cook better and healthier at home.

One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.