Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.
Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.
Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.
You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?