Anyone can make a good roast chicken.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

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