I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

A steak needs fat to taste great.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

Have confidence in America's food industry, it deserves it.

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.

I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.