"No, Jens makes all the Sporting decisions. But I obviously express my opinion. I wanted to go back. Even though London is a great metropolitan City - only when your in a foreign country, do you really learn value your own country. You miss things, that are everyday things in Germany. Wheat bread. Or white asparagus, that doesn`t actually exist in England. And naturally a really festive Christmas".
- Conny LehmannYou know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook`s year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
- Mario BataliYou needn`t tell me that a man who doesn`t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He`s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- Hector Hugh Munro