If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate..

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..

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenl….

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens..

You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of Sup….

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant..

That's how people make sense of a meeting: they eat something. If they were in a sad moment it would be the same thing, they'd be eating something. I….

21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being a chef, you would never be on a book tour.….

I just love this idea of using, especially in terms of food, using that common sense. If you follow that - it's hard to talk about it without soundin….

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef..

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world..

I can't crack jokes because I don't have any..

I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be s….

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..

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..

But when spring and summer happens, it's intuition. Everything is based on intuition. There's not too much time to overthink, over-complicate. Those ….

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning b….

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream..

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

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch..

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat..