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

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.

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.

Find your flock and fly.

O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly!

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.

Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!