My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

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.

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.