Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

I leave from where the apostle arrived.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.