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

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

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

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.