I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

New Orleans is a glorious mutation

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

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.