I do like artfully breaking rules.

My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.