When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

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.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

I think if you can take one or two things from a cookbook, it's successful.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

Vegetables to me are - I don't want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases.

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