I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

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

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.