• Passion. Always make it your main ingredient.
• Stuff all you can into life, and your red peppers.
• Ideas are like antipasti -  there to be shared and picked at.
• The dining table should be the centre of every home.
• Live life with your glass half full.
• Put everything you've got into everything you do.
• Garnish.  It can put the extra into ordinary.
• If it's worth saying it's worth repeating.
• Keep your knives sharp and your mind sharper.
• Just one word about pesto - lots.

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