Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.

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

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. But then you think "Who is doing the cooking?".