Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing..

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational..

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside..

When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change..

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food..

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born….

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy..

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you..

Nine out of ten English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes. Just ask yourself how ma….

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself..

You have to shout in the kitchen to deliver the orders, to drive the troops, to get the food out. When you have a table of eight courses and everyone….

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Wh….

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them..

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another..

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. Bu….

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regre….

I wasn't manufactured. I was cut from the cloth of the very old world of gastronomy. There was no such thing as celebrity chefs, chefs were trained a….

I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for….

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie..

I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping..