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

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

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

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.

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 think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.