When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it’s not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.