For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

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.'

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.

You will be someone else if you did not answer the question “Who am I

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.