"It’s like when you see a great couturier. Like when Christian Lacroix makes an enormous hat and you laugh as you see [a model wearing] it down the runway. You’d think, who wears that? But it trickles down to prêt-à-porter. Not everybody and even Ferran Adrià doesn’t eat that way all the time. It’s about pushing the envelope."

"There’s nothing new. We’re dealing with the same things. People talk about creativity like they created it. There’s no true creation. Everything that’s been in the world has already been there. We’ve just been inspired to interpret it in a different way."

"Cucinare e un attivita creativa al pari dello scrivere. Davanti ai fornelli ci si trova con lo stesso potenziale che si ha davanti alla pagina bianca"

Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)

Translation:  ”Cooking is a creative activity on par with writing.  At the burner, one finds the same potential as in the blank page.”