Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn’t get, but that’s not the case anymore.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.