You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.