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" Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams. "

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" Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee? "

" My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. "

" I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken. "

" Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork and a plastic bib for protection? "

" I was $4,000 short on my first payroll. "

" I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business. "

" Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting. "

" Cooking with your kids is a remarkable exercise to let them in on the purchasing part of the process - kids love to shop, and its great to take them to these ethnic places where people don't always speak the language. "

" In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing. "

" It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way you bake. "

" Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open into two flat pieces and thread them, along with the tentacles, onto skewers, then grill quickly over a direct fire with the coals as close as possible to the grate, turning the squid several times. "

" It's important that your shucked oyster is clean and pristine. "

" Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs. "

" One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke. "

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" I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with. "

" Maybe there are too many restaurants. Maybe some of mine need to close. So be it. I'll live with the market place. "

" The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins. "

" Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation. "

" I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school. "

" After being cooked, ling cod tends to bleed out some moisture, so, before serving, let it rest a few moments on a plate. Once the moisture has been released, you can carefully pick up the fillet with a slotted spatula and transfer it to another plate for saucing. This way, you won't sog out your beautiful sauce. "

" Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10. "

" Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense. "

" Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few. "

" My longtime friend Steven Steinbock, who has worked with me for more than thirty years, is a master at panfrying fish and seafood. "

" I don't answer my phone in a restaurant. "

" Farm to table is a personal choice. "

" Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks. "