Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.

I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

I'm not a big disco guy.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so its fun. Its almost better than chocolate ice cream.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.

Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork!