I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

No author ever spar'd a brother.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.