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Whether dealing with children or chefs, they are all giant babies in need of nurturing.
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Restaurants should be democratic; you shouldn't be made to feel privileged for getting a table or being lectured by the waiter.
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Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, crucially, the English managed to get wrong. I mean, if you run a restaurant, you've got to feed people, not make pretty little pictures on plates to make up for your lack of ability.
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My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.
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Buy locally where possible, but if you can't get the very best locally, don't buy locally. Buy it from where it is best.
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Just because something is English does not necessarily mean it is good. We make the best cheddar; we make great pasties. But we can't make very good brie or baguettes - and the French can't make pork pies.
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Once you accept and understand yourself, you do things for the right reasons, not the wrong ones, rather than being fuelled by your insecurities.
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I was brought up a working-class Tory. I believe, to be a true socialist, you have to be a capitalist first. In my heart, I'm a socialist; in my mind, I'm a capitalist.
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If I think back to the eighties, my methods weren't conventional, but they got results.
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I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.
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If I did one thing, I made cooking rock n' roll: I made it sexy. I made young kids from rich backgrounds want to come into my world.
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I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.
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I came from a hard, working-class world which, since my mother's death, had been dominated by men. I hadn't been encouraged to talk about the burden of grief, and because I was severely underdeveloped when it came to sharing my emotions, I mustn't have been the most communicative husband.
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I take so much from my life. I have my shooting and my fishing. I have my working life. I have my relationship with my children.
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In 1990 at Harveys, when I was 28 years old, I became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars. It was a huge achievement.
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'Wall Street' was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas's line, 'breakfast is for wimps,' became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.
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I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.
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I'm a great fan of farmed products, as long as it's done properly, because it allows people to be able to afford them. If it wasn't for farmed products, a lot of people wouldn't eat so well.
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A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.
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I came from the most humble side of society, and I know what it's like to be poor, really poor, and I was brought up in the '60s and '70s very poor, and I'm very happy flying the flag for the working man.
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You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I was always behind my stove.
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I discovered that the world of the finest restaurants was something akin to the world of the Mafia.
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Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash.
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I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.
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My pet hate, with customers, is those that think it's all about wallets.
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I like a nice cross section of society in my restaurants - the stars, the toffs, the working guy.
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Nine out of 10 English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes.
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One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.
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I don't like London. I'm not happy here. I don't even own a flat here.
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Remember, restaurateurs are only shopkeepers; that's all we are. It's no different from the supermarket down the road.
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I think what you got to do is to create an environment which people wish to sit in. You have to create a menu which is interesting to people. You have to create food which is delicious and affordable. I think that's what's important.
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The reason I do television is because we all have to work and earn a living, as I have four children. It's also a platform for me to share my knowledge and inspire the young.
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The only time I am seen in public is when I go to work. When I go home to England, I never leave my home.
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My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press couldn't get enough of it. I was in the papers every day, 'the enfant terrible of the culinary world.'
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