Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Anyone can make a good roast chicken.

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.