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.

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

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

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

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.

I hope you see what you've done to me.

Remember! When you promise someone the moon

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.

When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.