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

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

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

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

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.

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