A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

He watched her emerald eyes darken with need until they were the color of the Highland hills warmed by the summer sun.

Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!

Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.

A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.