This Kitchen Is Completely Calm. Some Of

Television Forces People To Be Larger Than Life. I Would Be Too Shy.

You Think About Some Of The Most Memorable Meals You've Ever Had; The Food Will Be Good But It Will Often Be About Locating A Mental Memory And Taste Is Inexorably Linked To All The Other Senses And Memory, So Ultimately It Is All About Taste.

At Home I've Got 1,500 Cook Books And The Spines Have All Gone, The Pages Are All Torn - It's Chaos.

I Was Born In The '60s And Grew Up In The '70s - Not Exactly The Best Decade For Food In British History. It Was Horrendous. It Was A Time When, As A Nation, We Excelled In Art And Music And Acting And Photography And Fashion - All Creative Skills... All Apart From Cooking.

Now My Complaint Is There Are Only 18 Hours To Work In A Day.