My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.

The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us the good parts about your day, but you also tell us the bad parts about your day. And at the end of that, because you're in a ritual, you remove the pressure of admitting you had a failure that day. And it also takes the wind out of having a great day. I mean, it makes you a little bit more normal all the time. That moment of therapeutic sharing is something that happens in food, that doesn't necessarily happen when you're watching TV.

I think any way of getting people into the field by lowering the threshold of the cost to get them to play, is great. That said, there's all these restaurants around that are very popular that have one menu. And they don't even have tables, and they don't even have backs on their chairs. It's not really the experience I'm after, but I'm happy they exist.

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.