In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

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.

Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.