If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

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

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

Without new ideas success can become stale

Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.