Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.