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

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

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.

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