Good food is very often, even most often, simple food..

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so..

What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll ….

What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful..

I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it..

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry..

Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash..

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality an….

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing ….

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards..

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more..

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business..

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese….

Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom..

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone ga….

When do you stop to de-douche?.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you sh….

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture th….

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears….

I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it ma….