Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

No one's more important than people.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.