Quotes from Dave Myers

Stockholm's a wonderful city if you love food - it's spectacular.

We like to play a game. You go into a diner and see if you can order breakfast without having to reply to a question. It's impossible. There's a huge amount of choice in how you'd like your eggs, your coffee, even how toasted you'd like your toast to be!

I think lots of men have an ostrich-like mentality regarding their health and general appearance. There is always tomorrow.

I think people have at least two careers in them, so we decided to turn our hobbies of motorbikes, cooking and chatting into a living.

When I find myself worrying, I have to give myself a severe talking to.

I've just turned 60 and, looking back, I realise all the time I spent worrying I achieved nothing.

With a lot of the old school veggie recipes, and in the Seventies and Eighties, you'd go to a veggie restaurant and you got this sense of worthiness. You were presented with a plate of brown, and three forkfuls in, you might feel self-righteous, but you were bored with it.

I think sometimes producers forget that people like interesting things. It doesn't always have to be 'Big Brother' or toil and torment.

It's about having a balanced diet; I think if we swayed the balance towards veggie, we'd all be better off.

On Route 66, a lot of it, it's very transient. There's an awful lot of really, really bad food, you can't ignore that.

My dad, Jim, was 55 when I was born.

I had a bright yellow jumper that my mother knitted me and I used to call it my scrambled egg jumper.

By the time I graduated, I'd lost both parents and 23 was a young age to deal with a double loss like that. I felt rootless.

I had some prejudices and preconceptions about American culture and trash culture, but the artisan food there is not all hot dog stands.

As a chef my sense of taste and smell are extremely important. But of all the senses, sight is the one I'd fear losing most.

A man's judgment of whether he is putting on weight is his belt.

People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.

I just calorie count and knock the booze on the head and then watch the scales to see the weight come off. Now I've been very healthy.

We invented the Black Forest trifle. It's got all the flavours of the Black Forest Gateau but in a trifle, using chocolate custard. You've got your kirsch, your cherries, the chocolate custard, the sponge and the cream.

People only ever cook nine meals in rotation, so we put a survey out to see what people wanted to eat. People said they loved a Bakewell tart and a trifle, so we've put them together, and now a recipe for Bakewell trifle exists.

I live in Container City at Trinity Buoy Wharf when I'm in London.

It was mid-life crisis time and you can't have more of a mid-life crisis than going off on a motorbike.

I like turkey with all the trimmings, bread sauce, cranberry sauce.

We were starting to get old before our time. I'm 10 years older than Kingy, but we'd both begun to shuffle, the knees were sore.