I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

I just love this idea of using, especially in terms of food, using that common sense. If you follow that - it's hard to talk about it without sounding like some New Age idiot, which I think is a bit unfair - but, if you do follow that natural cycle, you will inevitably eat better, cheaper, and much, much, much, much healthier.