I studied cooking in Spain after college.

My family came from Ecuador.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

Human making is our mission.

God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.