I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.

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

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.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

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