I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.

I cook for a living; I'm not a scheduler.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.