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I normally don't eat junk food. Martin Yan

Food Eat Normally Junk Junk Food

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. Martin Yan

Cooking Tools Drawer Fact Knives Toys Lot In Fact Full Whole

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life. Martin Yan

Life Great Job Great Job Great Life Am Normal Just Professional

Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut. Mary Berry

Christmas Cake September Too Perfect Crumble Fresh Making Cut Your

It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career. Mary Berry

Life Home Happy Alongside Up Your Home Life Helps Keep Career

I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes and some colour to my face, as without it, I look pale and uninteresting. Mary Berry

Eyes Face Few Extra Add Bit TV Wear Some Only Colour Look Without Pink Uninteresting Brighten Pale Lashes

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite. Mary Berry

Food Thought Few Lunch Mushrooms Back Top Favourite Absolute Delicious Had Mainly Days Most Sort Islands Years Years Ago Canary Get Few Things Different Holidays Cook Cookbook Now Things British

I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I'm really not that old. Mary Berry

People Old Think Invented Know Victoria Sandwich Really

When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything. Mary Berry

Food You Problem Everything Sections Would Supermarket No Problem Could Never Had Red Since Bake Look Bakery Make Pink Off Began Get Turn Now Things Started

One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified. Mary Berry

'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it. Mary Berry

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I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear short skirts - but I think at 78, one's got to act one's age. Mary Berry

Age Think Cold Wear Had Cleavage Like Because Got Get Short Legs Fantastic Might Act Skirts Showing

I do not like a quiche with wet, undercooked pastry underneath, and that is that. Mary Berry

Like Underneath Pastry Wet

It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much. Mary Berry

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I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead. Mary Berry

I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science. Mary Berry

Good Science School Hopeless Seemed Rather Subject Domestic

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake Off' is a happy show; there is no bad language, and although we do have drama, we deal with it calmly. Mary Berry

As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk. Mary Berry

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I hate Gordon Ramsay's programmes: I don't know if he's been told it makes good television. Mary Berry

Good Hate Programmes Television He Know Gordon Makes Been

I don't want food all over the place, down the sides of the sofa... When I shared a flat before I got married, we would always eat around the telly, but not now! Mary Berry

Food Before Down Sides Married Telly Would Eat Shared Over Around Always Got Want Flat Place Now Sofa

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