Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.

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.

I am made of universal love. I embrace my interconnected self and let it bring me joy.

Life is not others' perception about you, but what you experience within.

You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it.

Dragons are fire made flesh.

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.