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

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

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.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.