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I don't like conflict.
I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
And cooking is about balance and harmony.
Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?
(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.
Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.
On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.
I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.
Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.
If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.
There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.
I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.
There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.
I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?
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.
You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.
I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these.
The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.
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.
Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.