I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good.

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.

The food could taste amazing; however, if you present a plate of misfortunate looking food...you would really question yourself about whether or not you should eat it.

One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.