I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam

An entomologist is not a bug.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?