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" Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo. "

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" Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. "

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" I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home. "

" Vegetarians in general don't like me. "

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" Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown? "

" Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients. "

" Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream. "

" Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life. "

" Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute. "

" The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue. "

" The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes. "

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" Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull. "

" Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either. "

" Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge. "

" Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet. "

" Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned. "

" Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. "

" Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again. "

" Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores. "

" If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. "

" There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good. "

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Nothing

Good

" Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle. "

" These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves. "

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Personal

" Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work. "

" Healthy is in the eye of the beholder. "

" The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up. "

" Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish. "

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" Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form. "

" Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying. "

" Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish. "

" I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll. "