Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

It is going to have healthy food and exercise mixed together. With smaller portions, and more exercise, you live a better life.

Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous.

Young people want to be famous before they know how to cook, before they know how to treat people, before they know what hospitality means. I stayed in France for seven years and Austria for three, so before I was a chef anywhere I was already cooking for 10 years.

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.