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

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

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

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

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.

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

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