Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

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.