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

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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.

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

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.