I Don't Put Cream In Any Pasta

Food Is "everyday"-it Has To Be, Or We Would Not Survive For Long. But Food Is Never Just Something To Eat. It Is Something To Find Or Hunt Or Cultivate First Of All.

You Know, When You Get Your First Asparagus, Or Your First Acorn Squash, Or Your First Really Good Tomato Of The Season, Those Are The Moments That Define The Cook's Year. I Get More Excited By That Than Anything Else.

I'm Pretty Confident That The Seafood From The Northeastern Atlantic Is One Of The Most Delicious And Unique In The Country, So That We Can Represent That In A Way That The Italians Like To Represent Things.

If You Go To Italy And You Drive From The Airport To The Town, There Isn't 30 Square Feet That Isn't Planted By Someone. Even Next To The Train Tracks, They See The Joy Of The Interaction With The Planet As Integral To The Experience. The Idea That You Can Get Free Arugula Just By Planting Seeds... Because It Will Regrow Itself The Next Year. We've Come A Long Way From Foraging To Now Planting. The Next Step Of That Will Be Continuing That Expansion Of Planting And Really Owning The Crops.

We Need To Figure Out A 'harvest System' To Collect The Produce That Stores Don't Put Out For Customers To Buy Because It's Not Perfect Looking. Frankly, The Stuff Left To Rot In The Storeroom Is More Beautiful To Me Than The Perfect Carrot. I'm A Gnarly Carrot Kind Of Guy.