“It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.”

“It tells you how to boil water. What expression to wear when you are eating eggs. How to starve. When to eat. What your first meal should be. What your last meal should be. It says more about death than eating and more about living than cooking.”

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”

“My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.”

“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”

“See the person's eating and cooking, and then you can judge his or her spirituality.”

“I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.”

“Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday — what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.”

“Monty went beserk, like a toddler who's just been told he can't have a Happy Meal.”

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”