'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.