The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

Im obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.

I want to enjoy myself in this planet for as long as I can for the people I care about.

No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels.

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

We need to forget about mistakes and take the positives.