I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.
There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.
Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.
As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.
I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.
Americans should be receiving one plate a day of hot food. That's not too much to ask in America. An MRE is very expensive for the American taxpayer. A hot meal is more affordable, it's cheaper. It's what people really need, it's what people really want. They feel all of a sudden that you are caring for them, that America is caring for them.
The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.