Food is so heavily connected to memory.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.