I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

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.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.