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Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.
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It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.
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I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.
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But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.
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I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.
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I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.
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At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
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I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.
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'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.
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In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.
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Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
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I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.
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You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?
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Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.
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I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.
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Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.
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Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.
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I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
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In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
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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.
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I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
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There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
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I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
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Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.
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Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
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You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
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I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
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I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
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People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
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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.
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Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.
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And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
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Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
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