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People are in a hurry. They don't want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.

As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dish. Realizing that restraint is more difficult, I find it often renders incredibly beautiful results.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

I think baking's far easier than cooking, and because of that, it's more approachable.

The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.