Pastoral Resources

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

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.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.