As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

My family came from Ecuador.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old

Run, John, and work, the law commands, Yet give me neither feet nor hand.Much better new the Gospel brings:It bids me fly and gives me winds.

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

Nobody likes not having freedom.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?