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 opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

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

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

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

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.