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.

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.

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.

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

There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.