I Am Not The World's Most Confident

As We Get Older, We Tend To Become More Risk Averse Because We Tend To Find Reasons Why Things Won't Work. When You Are A Kid, You Think Everything Is Possible, And I Think With Creativity It Is So Important To Keep That Naivety.

I Was Born In The '60s And Grew Up In The '70s - Not Exactly The Best Decade For Food In British History. It Was Horrendous. It Was A Time When, As A Nation, We Excelled In Art And Music And Acting And Photography And Fashion - All Creative Skills... All Apart From Cooking.

I've Got Around 400 Cookbooks.

I Worked 120 Hours A Week For Eight Years. That's 20 To 22 Hours A Day Every Day And One Week I Only Got 15 Hours Sleep.

It Was Quite A Challenge To Make People Eat Crab Ice Cream.