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

I have very vivid memories of being a young child. My mother would create dinner as for us, and when she would bake, she would leave some dough for me. I would roll the dough into little sticks while she was cooking the apple tart of whatever. I was looking through the window of the oven and flipping the light, and then my bread would come out, and it was inedible, of course.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I don't follow the food trends.

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

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

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.