I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

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.

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.