1. Name your favourite restaurant?
My house in Barnes - cooking for friends
2. Name your favourite hotel?
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton, Oxfordshire
3. What is your favourite cuisine?
Indian - my favourite restaurants are London's Café Spice and the Balti House
4. What is your favourite drink?
Ribena and milk - it gives me lots of power for the day ahead
5. Are there any foods/ingredients you refuse to eat or cook with? If so why?
Bombay duck - it has a horrible smell
6. What flavour combinations do you detest?
Jelly and peanut butter
7. What is your favourite holiday destination?
I like most areas of France: the Pyrénées, Provence and Alsace
8. What is the best film you have seen?
Cyrano de Bergerac
9. What is your favourite book?
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne
10. What sort of music do you like?
Simply Red
11. Who is your favourite supplier of the moment and why?
Daily Fish Supply (0171-383 3771) for its quality products, good timekeeping and prices
12. What is your favourite prepared food product?
Sharwood's lime pickles
13. Who would be in your ultimate "fantasy brigade"?
Pierre Gagnaire, Pierre Gagnaire, St Etienne; Bernard Pacauo, L'Ambroisie, Paris; Enzo Santini, Santini, Milan; Olivier Roellinger, Maison de Bricourt, Cancale; Philippe Jousse, Alain Chapel, Mionnay, near Lyon
14. Which person do you aspire to be like?
General de Gaulle
15. Which chef do you most admire?
Pierre Gagnaire
16. What star sign are you?
Libra
17. Describe yourself in five words?
Passionate, honest, stubborn and a dreamer
18. Reveal something personal about yourself?
I believe in ghosts
19. Reveal your tips for keeping chef's whites white?
Wear a blue apron
21. Cast away on a desert island, what luxury would you take and why?
My wife - guess why?
23. Do you have a soul mate? If so, who is it?
Bowie, my cat, because he always agrees with me