Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

Im not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter taste. A good steak house will offer different options for preparation, and I would ask them to broil or pan-roast the steak and finish it with butter. It ends up a dark chocolate color and stays very juicy.

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

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

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.

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