I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that’s it.
I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.
Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.
You don’t come into cooking to get rich.
My childhood favourite is mum’s shepherd’s pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It’s because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.
No one saw the recession coming.
When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.
Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.
I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.
If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.
I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
I shoot from the hip.
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.
I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.
We have never done anything in a cynical fake way.
Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.
However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you’ve brought the pan to the table.