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I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

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.

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.

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.

I studied cooking all through high school.

When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.