I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't ha….

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

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients..

Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually….

Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild ….

And cooking is about balance and harmony..

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering..

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and ta….

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

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

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble..

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater..

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, th….

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did n….

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy..

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of ba….

I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet..

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

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

I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do..