Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

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.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without.

A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.