Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great..

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me..

New Orleans is a glorious mutation.

Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all the adults at the table and….

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm ….

Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve jus….

The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid imm….

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life..

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe..

Luck is not a business model..

Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday….

Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks won't tell you that. They wil….

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfyin….

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be every….

I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook today, it's what makes me happy. I….

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough l….

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusiv….

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently..

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?.

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy..

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure….