Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.

There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

It is not given to each of usTo be desired.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.