Quotes from Dave Myers

Making a big pan of soup and keeping it in the fridge is a good idea... and it's a whole lot tastier than packet and tinned soups.

In Rome you've got to try spaghetti cacio e pepe. It's just with pecorino and black pepper - it's sort of like homeopathic macaroni cheese.

I'd love to motorcycle right across Russia.

Wherever you've got a migrant culture, the food evolves and in New Orleans it's that French and Spanish influence. So you get gumbo, which came out of French bouillabaisse, jambalaya - a version of paella - and the boudin sausage, which is like the French boudin.

Going through the redwood forests was the most spectacular motorcycling.

My main home is in Morecambe Bay on a little island called Roa, where there are 13 houses, a lifeboat station, a boat club and a cafe.

When you're on the road a lot like we are, it's hard to eat sensibly and all too easy to stoke up on fatty foods.

At one point I'm doing belly-dancing, big mirror-ball in me belly button with couple of tassels and me head on fire and I thought, 'I could lose two stone.'

I live in France a lot of the time, in the Loire Valley.

We have an older following with 'Hairy Bikers,' but 'Strictly' crosses all generations.

Strictly' is a journey. I haven't danced before but I'm putting the practice hours in, whether it shows or not.

Strictly' is helping me keep the weight off.

People have asked Si if he would ever do 'Strictly,' I don't think he would, it's just not his thing really.

I always knew I could be a bit on the greedy side; I love cooking and eating and there in front of me was the evidence which I would have been daft to ignore. I could see visually where the fat was lying, basically all around my internal organs.

We had wonderful wood-fired chicken in Dallas. We asked if they had a vegetarian option and the guy just said, 'We have chicken.'

I was at art school for five years.

I started work as a makeup artist at the BBC, which was a vibrant, exciting and caring place.

My dad used to eat raw tripe soaked in malt vinegar when I was a kid.

Romanians love country dancing. At Christmas, you go house to house, and they play guitar and drum and a violin and everybody's on their feet - well, it's better than watching telly.

Keto diet, you are putting your body into ketosis which is never a good thing. It's a massive stress on your kidneys and liver which is why on that diet you have to drink a lot of water.