I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Adapt or die. It was savagely simple." -- CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL

I loved him, you know, ' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life.

Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.