The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform….

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and ….

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thi….

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race..

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have..

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relative….

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride..

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together..

'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers,….

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it ….

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, y….

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that..

I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even w….

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should ….

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to rep….

Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welc….

As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them..

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids….

Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in sear….

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic..

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arb….