As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

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

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

People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.

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.

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

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.