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" If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that. "

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" Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it. "

" 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. "

" The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook. "

" Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook. "

" 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. "

" Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. "

" 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. "

" For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks. "

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

" I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself. "

" 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. "

" I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease. "

" I think the best restaurants in America should be in California. "

" I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself. "

" 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. "

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

" Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo. "

" I was terrible at desk jobs. "

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

" Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though. "

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

" Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy. "

" I really don't care for the proper chef coat. "

" 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. "

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

" Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good. "

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