When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

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.

What happened once I started distributing communion was the truly disturbing, dreadful realization about Christianity: You can't be a Christian by yourself.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

I've gone through hell and back.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.