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"But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty."
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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."

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"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."

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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."

"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."

"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."

"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."

"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want."
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