Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

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.

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.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live

This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

Beat him, eat him and get out.