I don't really like money - I like the things you can buy with money.

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.

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesnt mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now youre cooking.

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

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

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

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