I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Know from root to fruit

Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

I love order and organization.

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.