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" For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets. "

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

" If you want to keep your side dishes warmer than room temperature, consider buying a small steam table for the home, with the Sterno cans underneath. "

" I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken. "

" Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef. "

" If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family. "

" Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips. "

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

" Anyone who knows me knows that I always like to keep moving. "

" I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world. "

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

" Vegas is a celebration. "

" IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions. "

" I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves. "

" Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration. "

" In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes for plum next time you make a tomato dish. "

" I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires. "

" 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. "

" My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres. "

" I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America. "

" My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it's a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer's market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together. "

" In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy. "

" Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition. "

" Recipes are overrated. "

" A plancha is just a hot flat surface. So if you think about it, anything is a plancha, like a saute pan or a griddle. A la plancha is the perfect way to cook for a crowd. "

" 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. "

" Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. "

" Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man. "

" One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity. "

" In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud. "

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