I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.

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.

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.