Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

A steak needs fat to taste great.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

The most beautiful vision is the one that lines your heart and fills your mind~bns

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.

I don't watch the movies I've been in. I try to stay as little aware of the final product as possible, because my job doesn't really change.

You can't be deep without a surface

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.