With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.