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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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"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."

"I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking."

"French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way."

"I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar."

"The best meals are those prepared by loving hands."
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"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."

"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."

"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."
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