Anyone can make a good roast chicken.
We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.
Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.
I have no formal culinary training, right.
They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.