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Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.

Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.