There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.

My family came from Ecuador.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.