Australia is an extraordinary country full of people who eat extraordinary food. There are Greeks, Italians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Chinese, Brits. It's so varied.

It seems that the more we travel, the more we want flavour and variation in our food - and the bolder it is, the more addictive those flavours will be.

My grandmother would let me stand on a stool stirring gravy in a large roasting dish in front of a wood-fired stove at the age of six. She wasn't worried about the whole health and safety stuff.

I like all my jackets to be on wooden coat hangers, all facing the same direction.

The most important ingredient of Sunday lunch is the conversation. Without that, it's dead and gone.

Sunday morning is time to slob around and perhaps go swimming.

I don't worry about the camera adding pounds, I am who I am.

I'm definitely not a nerd, not a nerd at all.

I think a robot butler would be a great idea for certain things. But the idea of anybody coming into my bedroom and doing stuff for me, besides my wife and I - such as giving you tea in the morning - I just find a bit irksome.

There is no way in the world that a vacuum cleaner will ever be obsolete - they use them for swimming pools, they use them for houses, they use them for industrial purposes. They're fantastic things.

People sometimes forget that Sydney is a harbour and it's the ferries that make it unique.

It's hard to get your head around the scale of Australia.

There are three types of palate. There's the palate that can't taste anything, there's the normal palate, and there's the Super Palate. I don't think I've got a Super Palate, but it's pretty good.

Restaurant kitchens are highly pressurised environments, with lots of young men, and that means one thing: testosterone. It's not brutal - it's military. It is regimented, tough. People are put into compartments and have to do exactly what they're told or the whole thing falls apart.

I like to reactivate my body after a long journey by getting the sun in my eyes.

If you go to a restaurant and you go with people you like, your food will always taste really good.

Cutting out meat or fish I could maybe just about manage - living without either? I can't see myself doing that ever, ever, ever.

Markets have long been at the centre of communities, not just somewhere to drop in and grab a bag of groceries, but a hub, a meeting place, and always a place to stop and eat.

You can't blame another person for your world being different - or things like divorce. It gets right on my goat when people don't take responsibility.

MasterChef's' about real people and for real people. It's aspirational and inspirational. There's nothing snobbish about it.

Let's be honest, we all love a roast, but Sunday lunch could be a huge plate of salade nicoise; it could be eggs benedict; it could be a barbecue. The important thing is you're making an effort, and you're all together.

My food hero would be someone like Elizabeth David, because I think what she did for Britain was amazing. Also David Thompson, an Australian chef who does Thai food and really understands the basis of it, has always been very inspiring.

I cooked, which was pretty un-Australian. And I didn't really like Australian music... I preferred the New Romantics and punk and stuff like that.

I'm an Australian - I grew up in Melbourne and Sydney - but as a kid you don't learn much about the Kimberley.

Few people think about the Top End of Australia as a travel destination.

That's one of the things that concerns me - vegan steak or whatever. It is a hard terminology thing, because what are you eating? With beef you know it's a piece of beef.

Cooking is a great leveller. You can be a sports star, an actor, an entrepreneur, anything, but cooking strips it all away.

My worst flight was with the Indonesian carrier Garuda from Australia to Bali, which was just awful.

I always gauge the deliciousness of the food in markets by the number of 'people eating and waiting - the more the better.

The most important aspect of a home is that it's a retreat, a place where you can laugh and cry.

My kind of cooking is not a single style - French, Asian, Australasian or British - it's not modern, old-fashioned or classic; it's a mix of all these things. And at its core is a boy who loved to cook with his Nanna.

Men and women are not the same in the kitchen. Women tend to be uninhibited and instinctive. Men are inconsistent, egotistical show-offs.

I love Moroccan food, but I don't want to eat a goat or sheep's head, thanks.

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.

Growing up in Australia, we didn't really go on holiday. We lived beside the beach, so when I walked out of the back gate I was on the sand.

Tomatoes and mozzarella work very well together because the milk is rich in summer when the grass is very very green, and makes the best mozzarella in the world, same time as the tomatoes are around and beautiful bushy basil.

Beaches are really important to me, and I love Sennen Cove and Perranporth Beach.

Start with the basics: make pancakes, boil an egg, make toast. Get the kids used to getting a bit of toast and understanding it's hot.

When I'm on holiday I want to clear my head and I found Marrakech too 'in your face' and busy.

I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don't necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.

Under-mature beef with no fat through the meat will be a dry and tasteless disappointment and you will get little yield from it.

Sunday lunch should be about sociability, about conversation, about general stimulation and the education of the youth.

Marriage is a very difficult thing and sometimes everyone can be a bit stubborn; it is what it is.

The weekend is all about teaching the children life skills and getting them out in all weathers.

When you grow up in a family where you have lost a parent, everybody joins together to instil the correct values in you, to give you guidance and and show you the moral ways of the world. Most important to my father and grandmother was the idea of treating people as you would like to be treated.

I absolutely love jumping on a plane. I find it to be one of the most wonderful, releasing experiences in the world. Nobody can call me and I have my own space where I can do whatever I want. For some people a long-haul flight is an ordeal, but I love every bit of it.

I don't mind cooking at home, I find it relaxing.

Cooking is what I do professionally and it is my way of life, but it is also the way I relax. It is the thing I dream about the most; it makes me smile.

My second marriage to Jessica just fell apart. It was nothing to do with restaurants.

I don't like to eat in front of people.