Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.

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

I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.