To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

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

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.