Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, … but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that’s usually working in Asian food.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

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.

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

A steak needs fat to taste great.

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.

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