If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.