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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook... I learned how important the right equipment is.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.

Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.