I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

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.

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.

Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.

My family is very far from normal.