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"As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it."
"I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes."
"Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat."
"Cooking is the ultimate giving!"
"40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D."
"It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday."
"I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things."
"From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others."
"Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them."
"The future is about a plant-based diet."
"I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly."
"Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible."
"I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting."
"Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself."
"My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover."
"The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy."
"I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward."
"Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon."
"Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat."
"Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!"