I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers..

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food..

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home..

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different..

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents..

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or….

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless..

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar..

I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on..

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them..

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other re….