The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.

I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It's how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it.

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.