The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

You can have your wish in the sacred time.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I'm not a person who carries my emotions on my sleeve.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.

No money changed hands, of course.

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

I believe that laughter is our greatest export