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

It's easier being a judge than a competitor. As a judge, you don't have any risks. That makes it much more enjoyable.

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.

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.

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

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

The usage of proper salt is really just a small piece of education. However, I want people to really get the proper nutrition from food for them and their family.