Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

I don't like conflict.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.