There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in France, which was all about motorists and seeing if it was worth driving an extra 50 miles for a restaurant. It's a silly thing. Why do you want to help a tire company? You don't owe them nothing.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.