I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.

Nobody likes sweaty coleslaw.

How do I know that you exist?That's just it. I don't!

Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.

Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet.

If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".

We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Communism means barbarism.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.