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

I love garlic, and I use it often.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

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

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.

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.