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I think every young cook wants to write a book.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.

Writing about food is my default.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.