I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Whatever it is that you're afraid of, I'll stand between you and it my whole life.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.

I find cutting myself attractive ... I find it sexual.