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    Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

    Work | Hours | Complaint


    It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

    Challenge | Eat | Crab


    You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

    Life | Sad | Release


    You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

    Work | Money | Standards


    I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.

    Voice | Kitchen | Hear


    We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

    Money | Eating | Loved


    But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

    Work | Hobby | Call


    I am not the world's most confident person.

    Confident


    I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

    Knife | Eating | Hand


    It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

    Family | Home | Wife


    What gets me excited is the original principle.

    Original | Principle | Excited


    Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

    Restaurant | Number | Humbling


    I tend to take negative comments to heart.

    Heart | Negative | Comments


    I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

    Sleep | Week | Hours


    I've got around 400 cookbooks.

    Cookbooks


    Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

    Life | Television | Shy


    We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

    Close | Several | Sunk


    I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

    Desire | Fault | Improving


    I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

    Best | Music | Time


    You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

    Food | Good | Memory


       

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