I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.