It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving..

I have no formal culinary training, right..

You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration hap….

Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our….

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today..

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can'….

Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the….

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again..

Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody d….

Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To….

I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by hand, because I want to remember the way it feels. It's so ….

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do..

Good food is a good trend..

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide..

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!.

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ….

I think that's the important thing - being aware of that inspiration and being able to interpret it into something that's meaningful for you..

When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfect….

Success is measured by the memories you create..

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the munda….

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe..