Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural..

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the ….

The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe..

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's centr….

Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where secur….

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams ….

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation..

The way you make an omelet reveals your character..

People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras..

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it..

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable..

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with res….

My wife was easy because she trains [jiu-jitsu] all the time. She's pretty much on a completely different diet. I always just threw meat at her and s….

A burger is something anyone can do, just follow the rules..

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'l….

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business..

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature..

If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They….

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amus….

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me..