The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

I've never really had a problem with people.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.