A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without.

Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.

These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.