“I started baking with my family and friends. We would make easy and co...” — John Whaite Quote

I started baking with my family and friends. We would make easy and competent dishes and spend our evenings and weekends together in the kitchen. It was quite argumentative and ferocious - it was family life. That instilled the love and comfort of food for me.

One of my favourite low-carb suppers is a Spanish tortilla using cauliflower in place of the potato.

Baking as a career is very different to baking as a hobby. Business plans are needed and it's not all plain sailing.

When we revel in hindsight, we have a tendency to embellish. We weave romantic and poetic fibres into the gaps in our memory.

The problem with a lot of modern recipes is that you have a great list of ingredients and you only need a tiny bit of each one so the rest perishes in the fridge.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits.

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.