New York is the best food city in the world.

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

We can go and explore different roads in our future, but the past ones are permanent, just like our greatest memories.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

The sky the sky- same as it always was.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.