“Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.”

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Cuisine has become too complicated – this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions – economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That’s my vision.

You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar.

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

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

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate.

Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise.

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.

The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.

Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.

It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.

The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

We’re talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and i feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.