The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

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.

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

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.

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

If I made it it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

I believe in empty spaces they're the most wonderful thing.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself.

Some people may regard my views well and show respect to me, and I hope they have not deceived themselves in doing so. Some people think that I am a leader of a movement.

Some fans understand who I am and why I do things, and then there are some fans that have formed an opinion that I don't feel is who I am.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.