Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

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

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

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

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.