If You See How A Plant Grows

I Started To Change. It Was Sort Of A Restaurant Mid-life Crisis, You Could Say. I Lost A Lot Of Confidence, Not So Much As A Father Or As A Friend, But As A Boss, As A Chef That's To Make Decisions Throughout The Day All The Time. I Just Slowly Started Burning Out. Once You Lose Your Confidence Like That, You Start Being Angry In The Kitchen. I Couldn't Recognize Myself Anymore. I Started Writing The Journal. It Was Never Meant To Be A Book, But The Editor At Phaidon Read Parts Of It. As Editors Do, I Guess.

That's How People Make Sense Of A Meeting: They Eat Something. If They Were In A Sad Moment It Would Be The Same Thing, They'd Be Eating Something. It's What Makes Life Fun. We Don't Need It To Be Delicious Or Great Or All These Things If We're Just To Survive. But It's One Of Those Things That Makes Life Fun, Livable. And The More I Submerge Myself In It, The More Fun I Seem To Have.

When You Start At Catering College, Nobody Prepares You For A Book Tour Or Public Speaking.

Close Interaction With Farmers And Scientists Can Expose The Chef To New Flavours That Can Be Used To Delight Diners.

If You See How A Plant Grows And You Taste It In Situ You Have A Perfect Example Of How It Should Taste On The Plate.