Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Gino D'Acampo - Page 2

The only way you could replicate the way I grew up, with no access to supermarkets or petrol stations, would be to live on a farm in the middle of Wales.

Every summer I sail to a small island called Cavallo, which lies between Sardinia and Corsica.

Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.

Rome is the capital of Europe; it's as simple as that. You need to see what the Romans did 2,000 years ago. They were so advanced compared to the rest of the world. They showed us how to make roads, toilet seats, how to do irrigation, and more. When you see the Colosseum you won't believe it was built so long ago.

My grandfather was a chef and would make everything himself, including the wine, and had his own huge pizza oven. All the neighbors used to come over and use it to bake their bread.

There is no way on Earth I'm going to get a call from 'Bake Off!' It is a British institution. People sit down to watch it with a cup of tea. The last thing they want is Gino D'Acampo!

I don't do cookery shows to show off, I do it to encourage people. What's the point in going on TV and doing a recipe that no one can replicate?

I never tried to convince my wife to move to Italy. She wouldn't have liked that.

I usually have a driver, or take a taxi. But I'm down to earth. I like to clean the kitchen, I iron and wash my wife's car! I just don't usually take trains.

Italy is a hot country. Wherever you feel heat, your excitement and passion come out. We're hot-blooded, and where there's passion there's love, but also anger, hunger, excitement.

In the D'Acampo family we have pancakes with banana and chocolate sauce for breakfast every Sunday, no matter what.

I spent a week of my honeymoon on a cruise ship and it was a nightmare. Never again.

I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is not set up for reading.

I love Manchester. It's a super-cool city and its famous rain is part of the charm.

We don't do spaghetti and Bolognese sauce together in Italy. That is technically wrong because when you lift up the spaghetti the sauce will just run down. The way to do it is to use pasta like fettuccine or tagliatelle so the sauce sticks to it.

When I was eight years old, my mum and dad took me skiing in Valle d'Aosta in northern Italy. I'm not usually a huge fan of snow or cold places, but I loved the fact that we were together as a family.

A lot of food shows are people wanting to become celebrities, rather than encouraging people to cook.

I get asked for cooking tips all the time.

Naples is famous for its handmade ties so I always buy them there.

I don't like lakes generally. It's a glorified pond, isn't it? I live by the sea, so for me I need to taste salt. I prefer the mystery, the majesty of the sea.

You'll never see an Italian go on a diet.

Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen - that's the place around which the whole of Italian society revolves.

I get lots of female attention on social media and some of it is disgusting. But my wife doesn't really care.

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.

If you want to go for a romantic break, or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice.

My mum and dad weren't wealthy people. We used to have pasta every day, meat once a week, fish was once every two weeks, presents only at Christmas and birthday.

People panic in the kitchen and they don't need to. The first thing to do is to open a nice bottle of wine and relax.

Very few Italian restaurants in Britain do a good job. They're too scared to show you what real Italian food is like because they think you can't handle it, so they dilute it.

I think every lady wishes their husband would cook.

Since I turned 40, my ambition is to spend more time with my family.

A key rule for every cook should be not to buy food when it's out of season because it's expensive and tastes awful.

My wife often goes out with male friends for dinner and I go out with female friends. We have different holidays. We're together six months of the year and when we're together, we're together.

Generally, Italians just eat better. They're not doing that thing where they're eating two or three hundred grams of pasta. They're never eating a carbonara sauce with a tub of cream in it.

The best place to go in Italy for a summer holiday is the island of Sardinia.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to be with me in the pub or a club, just watch 'Celebrity Juice.'

Italian people are so proud to show off. A little bit too much, I have to say. Wherever you go, they prepare a buffet and they get offended if you don't try things.

There's no point spending every day with the kids and not talking to each other. I'd rather spend one very intense day together.

I don't care about flowers or chocolates or anything like that, that's not me.

But my wife doesn't often allow me to cook in our kitchen at home. She says that I'm messy and I don't clean up after myself!