You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

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

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.