Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.