In A Professional Kitchen, The Idea Is

I Am A Buddhist, Therefore I Should Not Be Collecting Anything - However, I Have A Collection Of Buddhas. I Have A Lot Of Them.

I Am An Audiophile. It's Almost Like A Virus. I'm Completely Crazy About The Quality Of Sound. It's Interesting And Painful At The Same Time; You Have To Really Spend A Lot Of Money On The Equipment.

A Lot Of Foreign People Say, When Asking About Eating Habits, 'what Is Your Guilty Pleasure?' I Have No Guilt. Whatever I Do, I Enjoy And It's The Point. I Think If You Start To Feel Guilty About It, That's A Problem. So, No Guilty Pleasures. I Have Pleasure And No Guilt At All.

When I Started To Work In Paris In Fine Dining, The Passion Really Kicked In, And I Knew That I Would Not, For The Rest Of My Life, Do Anything Else.

We Lived In St. Tropez When I Was Young, And There Were A Lot Of Vietnamese Refugees In France At The Time, After The War. My Mother Had Many Vietnamese Friends Who Entertained A Lot, And She Was Taught How To Make That Spring Roll. She Would Make Them All The Time.