Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.