I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

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

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

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