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

A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.