It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape, " she explained. "She was crushed.""I'd have been disappointed too.

I hate him, too, " she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

If it tastes good, spit it out!

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.