That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

Luck is not a business model.

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.