Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

Don’t look up to people, don’t be someone’s following.Now a days everything you see is just a lie, Instead be the person you want to follow.

Enemy from within is always worst than outside devils.

I’d single-handedly go to war and burn their whole organization to the ground before I ever let them harm what was mine. And there were no two ways about it- Brighton would always be mine.

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating