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.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.