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.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

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.

Lifes too short to just breeze on by.

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

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

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.