In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

These reductions come despite the anticipated record level of Christmas-New Year holiday travel.

I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.