Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey

Greatness is achieved, not only by doing great things, but also, by making the small things we dogreat.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.