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Prue Leith

Profession : Chef

Birth : February 18, 1940

I think the most important thing in the whole world is love and relationships, and if you don't have them it's quite bad.

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I was intending not do any more telly and then I got talked into 'My Kitchen Rules,' which I did with Michael Caines.

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I grew up in a very white, privileged, old-fashioned society in South Africa and went to a boarding school run by nuns.

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I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

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I'd been brought up in a society which didn't talk about sex, food, money, religion or politics. Those things were all deemed slightly rude.

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For me the best food in the world is New British. It's quite classical cooking with really simple but good-quality ingredients. I also like top-end restaurants and pub grub done well.

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Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with no pictures at all. I doubt if that would sell today. But those books were much used: they lived in the kitchen and got splattered with custard and gravy.

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What makes me laugh is 'Masterchef,' with that ridiculous thing they always say, 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this!.'

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I'm completely addicted to Radio 4, even 100-year-old things like 'Just a Minute.' I even arrange my weekends around the Sunday edition of 'The Archers.'

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With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

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I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

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Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?

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I was an intellectual groupie. Still am.

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I used to always employ South Africans and Aussies and Kiwis - I can't admit this, well I can now, but I couldn't admit it at the time - but I didn't want wet English lads who didn't want to work in the catering trade anyway.

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It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

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I think women write more fully and honestly than men about heart and home.

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Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important.

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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.

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I do think it is the responsibility of parents to feed their children properly.

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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.

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