I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

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

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.