I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves.

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.