The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

Patience is the secret to good food.

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

You don't get second chances in the real world.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

The wind and the sea and the storm were his domain and I wanted nothing to do with them any longer. I just wanted Cain.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.