Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.