My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creative freedom as anyone's ever had in the history of television.