I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.
— Prue Leith
I vividly remember throwing a bowl of porridge at my husband Rayne once when he defended the children instead of me - the patch on the ceiling stayed for years.
The really nice thing about the town of Hua Hin - and Thailand generally - is that it's so safe. You can walk around the night market, for example, with complete confidence.
With great difficulty, I persuaded my dentist to saw one of my teeth level with the others. He thought it might kill the tooth, but it didn't. I wanted it done because I was doing a lot of television with food and I saw myself eating with these horrible crooked teeth.
I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant. I was supposed to read them in French but I cheated and used the English versions instead.
After opening my first restaurant in 1969, one of the regular customers suggested I write a cookbook, so I did. Then another. After my 12th one, I started to feel stale.
I'm not saying I'm proud of the fact I had a long affair with a married man, but it did help my business. By the time I married and had children I had the business under my belt.
The most followed chef is Delia Smith. She is my age and doesn't try to be entertaining, she encourages people to learn the basics.
I would have my last meal at my home in Oxfordshire.
I am very in favour of children having a nap after lunch because then they're not whiney and grizzly by six o'clock.
I prefer pub food to posh food.
Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.
The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I'm for ever banging on about children learning to cook.
Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.
I have never managed to put my feet up, ever.
The obesity problem among children is very serious. When advertising budgets are big and business can corrupt the way we live so that it becomes the norm to snack all day - and if you are never hungry you are never going to feel like eating a healthy meal - that can't be right.
Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important.
I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.
I couldn't live without my faithful companion, Megs the dog.
Hua Hin is Thailand's royal beach resort and home to the king's summer palace. The local food is fantastic, the weather is beautiful, everything's cheap and the Thai people are so friendly and warm.
I'd love to look incredibly glamorous, but I am a wholesome, comforting nanny type: I think I look like an advertisement for wholemeal flour or something.
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.
Nothing beats that sloppy kiss of a six-month-old grandchild.
I try to spend most weekends in the Cotswolds, having fun.
I am not saying celebrity chefs don't encourage children to cook. However, their programmes are so entertaining, you end up stuffing your face with Pot Noodles instead of learning from them.
At barbecues, people just like to eat a lot of meat; it's extraordinary. They eat far more than they normally would at a dinner party.
I believe in good, honest food. That's always been my ethos.
I've always had an image of Mother's Pride flour, very respectable and middle-class.
My grandchildren love cooking, and it doesn't have to be sweet things.
It's tough to eat well if you don't know how to cook.
What I want to do is produce really delicious food. I want it to look nice, because when you see food you should want to eat it. You shouldn't be saying, 'Oh my goodness, isn't the chef clever, he can weave the Eiffel Tower out of carrot sticks.'
I won't eat something which is high in calories and not particularly wonderful, because that's just not worth it, you feel guilty after.
I do think it is the responsibility of parents to feed their children properly.
I think women write more fully and honestly than men about heart and home.
If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.
I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.
If I am tanned, I feel a million times better.
I have strong hair, so if I've had a good haircut, I can wash my hair in the bath and not worry about it.
I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was going to be published.
In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy?
It's so nice to slip into the lap of luxury.
I was asked if I would do 'Dancing On Ice.' I thought it'd be the perfect way to get fit, lose a lot of weight and learn a new skill. I was actually quite excited, but my team said, 'Absolutely not.' They told me I was far too old and if I fell over I would break something - and then I thought they were probably right.
I think Paul Hollywood was quite perfectly within his rights to stay with Love Productions. They'd made him famous, he was getting a decent salary and he was enjoying it. Why shouldn't he stay with them?
I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time.
I'm a good cook, I am not a great cook. I'm an absolute fraud.
It takes several doses of any veg before children like it, but once they do they'll like it for life. You wouldn't give up on a child who didn't want to learn to read. Learning to eat is every bit as important.
I'm quite lazy. I don't want to learn a new subject like shipbuilding.
I think the BBC likes to have Mary Berry and me around to rebut the charge of ageism.
I've never been much of a cake-maker.
I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be honest I don't think there should be a School Food Trust. It shouldn't be necessary.
