1. “Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.”
2. “The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.”
3. “The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.”
4. “The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.”
5. “Hardly any of the most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant and definitely none in one of those fancy marble- floored, polished- silver establishments.”
6. “A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.”
7. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.”
8. “On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.”
9. “Conflict is very much a state of mind. if you’re not in that state of mind, it doesn’t bother you.”
10. “Pasta with melted cheese is the one thin I could eat over an over again.”
11. “Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.”
12. “I don’t do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.”
13. “There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.”
14. “I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eat eating your words.”
15. “Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they’re not.”
16. “Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.”
17. “If you can’t taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.”
18. “Vegetarians in general don’t like me.”
19. “Food was always important in my family, but I think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.”
20. “I can’t stand recipes that don’t have background.”
21. “In vast parts of the world, people don’t eat meat.”
22. “These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.”
23. “I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teachers years ago, who said it would hinder my prospectus.”
24. “The kitchen is tough. It’s one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.”
25. “I adore recipes that makes use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.”
26. “I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single color making you stop to check .”
27. “Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.”
28. “Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.”
29. “Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.”
30. “I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.”
