I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.

Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.

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.

I've never really had a problem with people.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.