I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

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

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

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.

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

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

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