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

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

I don't put cream in any pasta noodles ever. I would use a little butter, but I don't ever use cream.

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

What will always remain is love, passion and family time.