When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.