When you're a chef you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work the first thing I'll do and especially when I'm in New York I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

When you're a chef you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work the first thing I'll do and especially when I'm in New York I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills marketing skills cooking skills personality and more importantly delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills marketing skills cooking skills personality and more importantly delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice when you go away for that romantic weekend whatever you do do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice when you go away for that romantic weekend whatever you do do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant a fat chef and secondly who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant a fat chef and secondly who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I think every chef not just in America but across the world has a double-edged sword – two jackets one that's driven a self-confessed perfectionist thoroughbred hate incompetence and switch off the stove take off the jacket and become a family man.

I think every chef not just in America but across the world has a double-edged sword – two jackets one that's driven a self-confessed perfectionist thoroughbred hate incompetence and switch off the stove take off the jacket and become a family man.