You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

I think that there is philanthropy and there is publicity. If you can marry the two to do something good, then I think it's great. Some of the other guys go around and slag people as a profession. That's not so interesting to me, because it's easy to take down, it's harder to build.

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.