Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

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.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.