Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
Spaghetti is love.
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
You have to live life to its full chorizo.
Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.
The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.
There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.
I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.
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.
