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

I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.

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.

I'm not a trained chef. I'm a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, 'Yo, I could do that! Maybe I didn't think to or maybe it seemed harder than it really is.'

When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.

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.