I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

...torna-se difícil acreditar Nele quando o céu e a terra podem chegar a se explicar por si mesmos.

What does he expect from a law student? I'm hard-wired to find loopholes.

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

No one dies a virgin, Life screws us all

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.