It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.