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

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

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.

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

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

The mind of a man is his mastermasterpiece.

There is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife

Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

Nonetheless, it moves.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Paparazzi always made me really uncomfortable.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

I'd love to sponsor a dolphin.