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    All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

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    As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

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    Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process we can give it to humans.

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    But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

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    Cooking is the ultimate giving!

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    Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

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    Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

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    Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!

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    Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

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    From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

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    Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

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    God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

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    Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

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    Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

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    I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

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    I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

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    If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

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    If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

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    If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

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    I hate making TV documentaries.

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    I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish

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    I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.

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    I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

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    Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.

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    I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

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    I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

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    Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

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    I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.

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    I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt great food and dishes from all of the lovely people who come from overseas to live in our country. We're a magpie nation - we take the best bits of other cuisines and embrace them as our own.

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    I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting.

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    I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.

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    It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

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    It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

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    It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

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    I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.

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    I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

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    I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

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    I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

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    Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

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    Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

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    Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself.

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    My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.

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    My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

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    My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

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    Now, everyone is excited about food - cooking, growing, learning - watching it on TV, buying books, trying things at home. It's the greatest time ever to be in food - which is why it's so hard to see so many people still relying on processed food. I am hoping that we had a generational blip - and that these young people will continue on and pass on their love of food and creativity to the next generation of kids.

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    Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

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    Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.

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    Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

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    Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

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    The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.