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

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

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

The fish is the star of the plate.

We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.