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I've got such a sweet tooth. I do miss the U.K. where you get sticky toffee pudding or custard, all that.

Sticky toffee pudding is my favorite dessert in the U.K.

What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

Desserts are last, but don't let them be least.