Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

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.

It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

You are forever alone.

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

I am told I was born. I do not remember.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.