Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

But it is really hard to eat good when you are traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

You feel better when you are eating food that retains nutritional value.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It is very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it is going to taste. You do not need to mess with it all the time.

Patience is the secret to good food.

I am tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it is a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that is one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

There is not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they are serving.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

It is better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it is intense. It is about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it Does not nourish the body - or the soul.

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

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.

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

It is easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

When I came to the Food Network, I did not want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I did not want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.