I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

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

A steak needs fat to taste great.

When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.

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.

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.

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