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

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

I had a fierce curiosity about this food thing.

It's okay to play with your food.

I like to keep things simple. It's really about the wine, food and the beach view. Nothing can beat that.