Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.

May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment - in the answers they seek.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.