Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.

I'm not a big dancer!

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.