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.

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.

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.

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

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'

Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?

Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.

Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

Dying would have been so much easier.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.