If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.