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

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

I might use milk if I was using a touch of milk to make like a lasagna or a baked pasta. But cream? That is totally not the way they do it in Italy, and it's not a very good thing. It's kind of a blanket for flavor.

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

I really want to be a rock star.

When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.