One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

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

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

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

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

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.

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.