The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

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

Vegetables to me are - I don't want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases.

Good food is a good trend.

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.

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.