There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.

It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.