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.

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.

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.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

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

Don't let your journey fade. It's God's way of reminding us that we need him in our lives and it's not wrong

Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

Yeah, I think on my resume it still says that - that I can juggle.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

I understand things that are American, for better or worse.