Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.

The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before.

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.