There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scissors and some onomatopoeia.

Sketch what you got, it will determine what you will be.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

You win people's hearts by helping them grow personally.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.