One of my missions was to teach.

One of my missions was to teach.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.