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 think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

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

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.