Let's be honest, we all love a roast, but Sunday lunch could be a huge plate of salade nicoise; it could be eggs benedict; it could be a barbecue. The important thing is you're making an effort, and you're all together.

My food hero would be someone like Elizabeth David, because I think what she did for Britain was amazing. Also David Thompson, an Australian chef who does Thai food and really understands the basis of it, has always been very inspiring.

I cooked, which was pretty un-Australian. And I didn't really like Australian music... I preferred the New Romantics and punk and stuff like that.

I'm an Australian - I grew up in Melbourne and Sydney - but as a kid you don't learn much about the Kimberley.

Few people think about the Top End of Australia as a travel destination.

That's one of the things that concerns me - vegan steak or whatever. It is a hard terminology thing, because what are you eating? With beef you know it's a piece of beef.

Cooking is a great leveller. You can be a sports star, an actor, an entrepreneur, anything, but cooking strips it all away.

My worst flight was with the Indonesian carrier Garuda from Australia to Bali, which was just awful.

I always gauge the deliciousness of the food in markets by the number of 'people eating and waiting - the more the better.

The most important aspect of a home is that it's a retreat, a place where you can laugh and cry.

My kind of cooking is not a single style - French, Asian, Australasian or British - it's not modern, old-fashioned or classic; it's a mix of all these things. And at its core is a boy who loved to cook with his Nanna.

Men and women are not the same in the kitchen. Women tend to be uninhibited and instinctive. Men are inconsistent, egotistical show-offs.

I love Moroccan food, but I don't want to eat a goat or sheep's head, thanks.

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.

Growing up in Australia, we didn't really go on holiday. We lived beside the beach, so when I walked out of the back gate I was on the sand.

Tomatoes and mozzarella work very well together because the milk is rich in summer when the grass is very very green, and makes the best mozzarella in the world, same time as the tomatoes are around and beautiful bushy basil.

Beaches are really important to me, and I love Sennen Cove and Perranporth Beach.

Start with the basics: make pancakes, boil an egg, make toast. Get the kids used to getting a bit of toast and understanding it's hot.

When I'm on holiday I want to clear my head and I found Marrakech too 'in your face' and busy.

I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don't necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.

Under-mature beef with no fat through the meat will be a dry and tasteless disappointment and you will get little yield from it.

Sunday lunch should be about sociability, about conversation, about general stimulation and the education of the youth.

Marriage is a very difficult thing and sometimes everyone can be a bit stubborn; it is what it is.

The weekend is all about teaching the children life skills and getting them out in all weathers.

When you grow up in a family where you have lost a parent, everybody joins together to instil the correct values in you, to give you guidance and and show you the moral ways of the world. Most important to my father and grandmother was the idea of treating people as you would like to be treated.

I absolutely love jumping on a plane. I find it to be one of the most wonderful, releasing experiences in the world. Nobody can call me and I have my own space where I can do whatever I want. For some people a long-haul flight is an ordeal, but I love every bit of it.

I don't mind cooking at home, I find it relaxing.

Cooking is what I do professionally and it is my way of life, but it is also the way I relax. It is the thing I dream about the most; it makes me smile.

My second marriage to Jessica just fell apart. It was nothing to do with restaurants.

I don't like to eat in front of people.

How could you live without chips? I could do without bread easily.

As an Aussie, my favourite holidays are skiing ones.

I do think about how different my life might have been had my mother not died so young, but I try not to delve into it too deeply, as it's like 'Sliding Doors,' isn't it? You just don't know.

You have to control your own destiny and make your own choices.

The inspiration to cook came from my grandmother and my father who were both wonderful home cooks. But I would say I taught myself. You travel, you discover the world, you explore books - it is these things that make a great cook.

Sydney-siders don't drive.

I like to introduce people to new things without scaring them.

For the children it will always be a lemonade float at the Christmas table as a special treat.

In winter I love a pasty.

I'm pretty conscious of what I eat because of my age.

Vegetarian' is just another word for 'bad hunter.'

Fact is, I'm a carnivore.

I'm not someone who jumps in a car to make for the country, I'm an urbanite. I love living in London and there's always something going on.

I can't understand why anyone would want to reduce vinegar.

I already have my fantasy job. I run a restaurant and film 'MasterChef,' both of which mean I get to cook and eat - and get paid for it.

I don't think a 12-month TV campaign really changes what anyone thinks.

I love South Australia.

There's nothing worse than a sterile house.

I think the 'Great British Bake-Off' is great.

If I go to a restaurant the last thing I want to do is sit with somebody I don't like because then the food always tastes awful.