Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.

It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Over the years, Céline Labaune has been constantly seeking to source the highest quality truffles; her diligence and expertise truly set her apart.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

I get so into the moment.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Make today your master piece.

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.