Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat that you can't help the other chefs.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

The lovely loving and the hateful hates.

You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.