I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

They have no electric, no nothing. And they're cooking food by the pots out on their grills. And they're just overly friendly here. And here they're the ones that are basically down and out.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.