The best place to go in Italy for a summer holiday is the island of Sardinia.
Always buy dry pasta, not fresh. 90 percent of Italians use dried pasta as it keeps its al dente shape more perfectly when cooked.
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.
Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.
I get asked for cooking tips all the time.
Since I turned 40, my ambition is to spend more time with my family.
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!
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!
I get lots of female attention on social media and some of it is disgusting. But my wife doesn't really care.
I can cook in front of millions of people on TV, I don't care. But cooking for my own family really freaked me out. If they don't like it, they tell you.
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.
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 never tried to convince my wife to move to Italy. She wouldn't have liked that.
I don't care about flowers or chocolates or anything like that, that's not me.
I think every lady wishes their husband would cook.
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.
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.
As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.
A lot of food shows are people wanting to become celebrities, rather than encouraging people to cook.
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?
