Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

Lifes too short to just breeze on by.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin.