When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Creativity means not copying.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.