I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.

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

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

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

A job is a job. And I like to work.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

I said, 'Hey', she said, 'Hi.' I said, 'Us', she said, 'Try,' 'And if you're thinkin strictly boots, then I'll say baby, bye bye.'

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.