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You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.

I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Chefs love to have that control and power to control the message they want to deliver.