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

I have two young boys, and my wife is at home. Most of the time, I will cook the food, and we'll eat together.

There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.

Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

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

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.