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" As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas. "

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" I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country. "

" Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting. "

" Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink. "

" I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need. "

" My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base. "

" The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult. "

" Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated. "

" I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities. "

" The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering. "

" Everyone else in the world still thinks of American food as ketchup. "

" I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show. "

" People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers. "

" Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level. "

" Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen. "

" As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize. "

" Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset. "

" The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters. "

" When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart. "

" When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes. "

" In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu. "

" In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face. "

" For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy. "

" There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them. "

" When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs. "

" Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist. "

" Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game. "

" All my life, I've had restaurants that were affordable. "

" Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack. "

" Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today. "

" Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor. "