You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.

If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.