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.

It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?"

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.

America has undergone a total food and wine revolution.

Most seasonings are based on family tradition.