Food is so heavily connected to memory.

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.

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

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.

The heavens declare the glory of God.The heavens declare the majesty King.The heavens declare the marvellous Lord.The heavens declare the mighty Saviour.

... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.