You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doin...
My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic...
For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Am...
'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook,...
My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better...
When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'...
I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' but when I have the chan...
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking....
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, an...
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients comb...
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in t...
