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That's How People Make Sense Of A Meeting: They Eat Something. If They Were In A Sad Moment It Would Be The Same Thing, They'd Be Eating Something. It's What Makes Life Fun. We Don't Need It To Be Delicious Or Great Or All These Things If We're Just To Survive. But It's One Of Those Things That Makes Life Fun, Livable. And The More I Submerge Myself In It, The More Fun I Seem To Have.

When People Are Grownups They're Grown Ups. They Make Their Own Decisions You Know.

All Of The People Who Work In The Kitchen With Me Go Out Into The Forests And On To The Beach. It's A Part Of Their Job. If You Work With Me You Will Often Be Starting Your Day In The Forest Or On The Shore Because I Believe Foraging Will Shape You As A Chef.

21 Years Ago When I Started Cooking, To Be A Cook Meant That You Were Going To Stay In The Basement. Being A Chef, You Would Never Be On A Book Tour. You Could Never Dream That 20 Years Later On You Would Be On A Book Tour. It Wasn't A Part Of Your Dreams Because It Was Just Totally Unrealistic. When Did Cooks - Restaurant Cooks, Not Cooks That Have 15,000 Television Shows - When Did Cooks Become Part Of Pop Culture The Way They Are?

When You Get Close To The Raw Materials And Taste Them At The Moment They Let Go Of The Soil, You Learn To Respect Them.