Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.