Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

You are truly as important as everyone else. People's opinions of you will always be irrelevant as long as you keep holding positive beliefs about your life and abilities.

Never say never - in fashion and life

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.

Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.