I'm Too Tired To Hate.

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.

If You're Good With A Knife, You Don't Need Your Eyes.

I Only Really Fake It Anymore With Sommeliers Who Are Being Really Snotty To Me And I Don't Want To Take Their Grief And So I Try To Do Something To Kind Of Throw Them Off Or Put Them On The Defensive, Even If I Don't Know What I'm Talking About

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.

I Am A Filmmaker. That Is All I've Ever Been. You Know, Martin Scorsese Makes Films About The Mob. And I Make Movies About Food.