To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
I am many different things, and that is why I am so proud to be American.
In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.
If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.
There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
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.
Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.
You know, I want to eat junk food. My kids love junk food.
I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
