My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

When you have the arrogance, the confidence and you can't cook, then you're only going to look stupid.

I'm actually not really a breakfast person.

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.