I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.

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.

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

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.

Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

The moment you're born you're done for.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.

We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing