(in Cooking), There Is Always Room For

Cake Baking Has To Be, However Innocently, One Of The Great Culinary Scams: It Implies Effort, It Implies Domestic Prowess; But Believe Me, It's Easy.

But If You Know That Something Has Been Really Vicious, You Don't Read It, You Don't Let It Into Your Head. What's Damaging Is When Sentences Go Through Your Head And You Burn With The Injustice Of It.

I Lurch From Chaos To Chaos. I Can't Find My Driving Licence And My Clothes Are Everywhere - Cooking Is The Neatest Thing I Do.

I Know The Crew So Well, So I Forget I'm Being Filmed. It's Like Cooking With A Friend In The Kitchen - You're Talking, As You Do, And Maybe You're Telling Her About This Wonderful Way To Prepare Lamb Chops - It's More Natural, More Honest.

It's True That I Wouldn't Have Written The First Book Had My Sister And Mother Been Alive. It Was My Way Of Continuing Our Conversation. It's Also This Jewish Thing Of Naming And Remembering People, And I Think There Is A Sense Of Keeping That Side Of Life Going.