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Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?