Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.

There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!

There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.

My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.

It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

It is difficult not to write satire.

There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.