I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

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