Spice Blending Quotes

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.

I am a very bad cook. I can never make proper Indian food.

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.

I love cooking and baking.

Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries.

You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

Don't be afraid to play with combinations and quantities of spices to create your own bespoke spice rub.

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

I love mixing Indian and Western.

Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945.