When I was kid, one of the big things was watching all the cattle trucks and wheat trucks coming through town.

That way I look at it, I want to push myself to create things people could've never imagined. It's a good motto to have in the back of your head, I think.

Despite being quite a shy kid, I was in my element with my mates. I definitely wasn't shy then. We had a lot of fun, running around town getting into mischief.

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

I like being at home and cooking.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.

I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

"I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up."

"To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing."

"Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says."

"I act on impulse and I go with my instincts."

"I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig."

"I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it."

"I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent."

"Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them."

"If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, "I "would probably die."

"I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today."