People should ALWAYS have a good BOTTLE of extra virgin olive oil, a packet of PASTA, tinned tomatoes and a good cheese SOMEWHERE in their fridge.

If I eat at the Emporio ARMANI Caffe, my favorite THING to order is risotto or PASTA with tomato sauce in winter; in SUMMER, I prefer a Caprese SALAD, Parmigiano cheese flakes, or some truly fresh ricotta cheese.

Many call for cooking pasta directly in milk, a technique that works OKAY, but it can LEAD to scorching if you're not SUPER careful with stirring. I prefer the evaporated-milk route because it ensures a CLEAN pan with no BURNT bits on the bottom.

Gluten-free pasta is not a focus, which I WOULD RATHER have gluten-free pasta. HEY, if I have to have REGULAR pasta... It is what it is.

At HOME I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the FAMILY.

Well, I'm ITALIAN, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My MOTHER doesn't even have a SECRET SPAGHETTI sauce recipe.

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried FRUIT. And my BIG THING is pasta. I do a lot of SIMPLE pasta, with great ingredients.

Some days I'll COOK, and then some days my WIFE will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of TIMES we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the WHOLE THING.

I try not to eat too MUCH, but I always get hungry before a match. I MAKE sure I have enough fuel in my body. I'll eat pasta and a little bit of protein usually. I'm pretty much EATING a full meal.

I EAT a lot of pasta. We eat relatively HEALTHY. I don't eat fast FOOD, mostly home-cooked stuff. Chicken. Salads. Stuff LIKE that. Oatmeal for BREAKFAST. A big dinner.

I don't GO a DAY WITHOUT EATING PASTA.

At the weekend, one of the PAPARAZZI left their lunch box filled with half-eaten PASTA salad on my doorstep: it was LIKE a little warning, you KNOW? 'We have been here.'

For me, the thought of spaghetti and meatballs conjures up the IMAGE of that scene where 'Lady and the Tramp' GAZE into each other's EYES as they slurp a strand of pasta into a fateful KISS.

By fermenting tiny single-cell organisms we will be able to synthesise all manner of foodstuffs in the future, everything from pasta to EGGS, fish and MEAT. Small tweaks in the process will enable production of different proteins used to replicate FOOD we already EAT.