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

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

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.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

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.

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

I love garlic, and I use it often.