I have no formal culinary training, right.

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.