Life is like a tango fortunate are the few who can master it.

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.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

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.

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

Although people are so kind to alcohol, still alcohol makes them blind.

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form.

Like love, grief fades in and out.

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.