Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.