Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.

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.

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being a chef, you would never be on a book tour. You could never dream that 20 years later on you would be on a book tour. It wasn't a part of your dreams because it was just totally unrealistic. When did cooks - restaurant cooks, not cooks that have 15,000 television shows - when did cooks become part of pop culture the way they are?