I Came Up From A Difficult Background.

You See New Shows Coming Out With The Same Format, Slightly High End, A Little Bit More Glossy. You Think, "s - . It's Just The Same S - But Different Day."

I'm A Big Lover Of Fish. Cooking Fish Is So Much More Difficult Than Cooking Protein Meats, Because There Are No Temperatures In The Medium, Rare, Well Done Cooking A Stunning Sea Bass Or A Scallop.

Masterchef Junior For Me Was About Working Closely With These Kids And Getting Them To Reeducate Their Parents To Understand That Food Is As Important Educationally As Math And English And It's Important That We Don't Take It For Granted.

What You're Experiencing Now [on "masterchef," On "junior"] Is What Life's Going To Be Like For The Next Four, Five Decades. You're Going To Go Through Those Bumps. Bringing You Back In Contention And Giving You That Kind Of Confidence, They're Huge. But They Let It Go, There's No Fear, They're Naughty, They're Rude, And They Know There's No Parents And There's No School Teacher So They Can Have Fun, And It Shows.

I've Had A Lot Of Success; I've Had Failures, So I Learn From The Failure.