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"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."
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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."
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"Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using."
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"Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sweet potatoes topped with a vegetable glaze. They looked perfect, but it was the kind of dish where you just knew someone had to have been pawing at your food for a long while to get it just right, their fingers all in what now you were having to stick in your mouth."
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"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."
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"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."
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"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."
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"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."
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"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
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"I just get all jacked up when we start cooking."
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"I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys."
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"Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window."
Work
"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."
Fault
"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
Books
"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."
Food
"I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants."
Cooking
"There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home."
Home
"There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game."
Art
"In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them."
Time
"Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy."
Food
"I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want."
People
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