Food can be utilized for economic reasons, like the grain embargo of Carter 40 years ago. You have a political decision, you are going to move the fl….

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away..

When you'd get a note from someone, the government, it meant something was wrong. This was the way it was. Just goes to show you the way that being a….

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I do….

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've w….

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have tea….

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depe….

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child ….

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, co….

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!.

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked ….

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne….

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surge….

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. ….

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Ma….

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are….

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money..

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went….

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend tim….

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, bu….

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those th….