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

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

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

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!

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

One of my missions was to teach.