Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

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.

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.

All of our relationships and our interactions, the life affirming ones and the challenging ones, show us how far we have come and where we still need to go.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can REALLY hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.