I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

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 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.

I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens.

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.