Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Genius is trying to figure out what Genius is.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.

Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and you can become a more powerful communicator.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.