Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Sometimes a minute is really the difference between success and failure. There are times when you finish with ten seconds left, and one extra minute could've meant everything. You almost have to think of it as a sporting-event type of atmosphere: A football game is sixty minutes long. Think of how many games could be won or lost if the team had one more minute?

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.

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.