What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.