One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

A steak needs fat to taste great.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.

Chance or fate has, yes, participation in your life. But how much it happens, it's up to you.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Such a positive move by Uruguay - bringing 2 players off and putting 2 players on.

Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.