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" Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different. "

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" Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm. "

" New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose. "

" I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it... I would just mix it and put it on everything, literally. "

" When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now. "

" Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything. "

" If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it. "

" I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified. "

" I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes. "

" There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker. "

" One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7. "

" I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away. "

" When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference. "

" There are many things to admire about Japan but this is the one thing I love the most and probably the only time I eat breakfast. Fish, eggs, soup, salad, veggies; all in the tiniest bites. It's a full meal, but it's so refreshing. "

" If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is. "

" I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus. "

" Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world. "

" The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. "

" I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always. "

" Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore? "

" I want to make simple food new. "

" I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience. "

" Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful. "

" Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types. "

" I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways. "

" If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on. "

" I don't like eating in restaurants. "

" 'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food. "

" People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation. "

" The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work. "

" I was terrible at desk jobs. "