The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

If you take care of someone, it does not mean that one should take care of you, someone other will be/has been sent by the God for you

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

Hope is not a financial plan.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.