Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat that you can't help the other chefs.

I try to do yoga once a week.

No! If you die, I die! You asked me to spend forever with you, and I'm going to!

You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.