We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

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.

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.