Rene Redzepi

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.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.