In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

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

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

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.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.