They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

I have no formal culinary training, right.

Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.