I Think A Lot Of Food Shows,

Molecular Gastronomy Is Not Bad... But Without Sound, Basic Culinary Technique, It Is Useless.

I Became A Cook So I Could Cook And Tell Stories In Wacky Ways.

We Are Fat And Sick And Dying Because We Have Handed A Basic, Fundamental And Intimate Function Of Life Over To Corporations. We Choose To Value Our Nourishment So Little That We Entrust It To Strangers. This Is Insanity. Feed Yourselves. Feed Your Loved Ones. And For God's Sake Feed Your Children.

No Matter How Much Creativity Goes Into It, Cooking Is An Art. Or Perhaps I Should Say A Craft. It Abides By Absolute Rules, Physics, Chemistry, Etc. And That Means That Unless You Understand The Science You Cannot Reach The Art. We're Not Talking About Painting Here. Cooking's More Like Engineering. I Happen To Think That There Is Great Beauty In Great Engineering.

My First Book Is Really About Heat. That Book, For Me, Was An Exploration Of Heat As Ingredient. Why We Don't Talk About Heat As An Ingredient, I Don't Quite Understand, Because It Is The Common Ingredient To All Cooking Processes.