I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.
I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do.
One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease.
My longtime friend Steven Steinbock, who has worked with me for more than thirty years, is a master at panfrying fish and seafood.
The flesh of king salmon, which varies in color from white to pink to red, has a high fat content, making it perfect for grilling.
The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.
Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.
That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.
Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens.
There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.
Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.
Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
