The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.