Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good.

Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

I want to teach people how to do it the right way. And it is from that they can teach their children how to do it properly. It will teach them how to cook better and healthier at home.

I used to write cookbooks. It was passion to try to bring healthy and fun recipes to people's homes. It was a way to bring my home to theirs.

Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.

I want to help build their basic food terminology.