I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

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

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

That's how people make sense of a meeting: they eat something. If they were in a sad moment it would be the same thing, they'd be eating something. It's what makes life fun. We don't need it to be delicious or great or all these things if we're just to survive. But it's one of those things that makes life fun, livable. And the more I submerge myself in it, the more fun I seem to have.

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

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.

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.