If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

You have to shout in the kitchen to deliver the orders, to drive the troops, to get the food out. When you have a table of eight courses and everyone's having something different, you have a 15-second window to get it all together so no one at the table waits.

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

People who can give themselves every day. They're the people that I admire, they're real people.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.