Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

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

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.