Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.

Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

A cake is a very good test of an oven if it browns too much on one side and not on the other its not your fault you need to have your oven checked.

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.

God, I love John Cassavetes.

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.

Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

For it is in giving that we receive.

I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

The more you can create that magic bubble that suspension of disbelief for a while the better.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

You know what they say sleep is the mothers drug of choice but like heroin only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life's storms rage, you do.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

I really have this desire to make it known that the Internet exists and YouTubers are important. And not only are YouTubers important, our followings are incredible.

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.