Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.