Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs.
If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh.
Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage.
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.
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.
Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.
At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.
