I'm Very Bad, But I Like To

Just Walking In The Kitchen (and We Have Three Kitchens At Le Bernardin), I Exercise Quite A Lot. I Also Walk In Central Park For 50 Minutes From My House To Le Bernardin Every Day, Rain, Shine, Snow.

California Is Lucky, The East Coast Is Lucky Because We Get Great Seafood And A Lot Of Produce From Florida, Locally In Good Weather, But In The Winter We Have To Buy It.

Well, Cooking Starts With Shopping. If The Ingredients Are Not Good, You Don't Do It. Just Change Your Mind And Do Something Else.

Cooking Is A Holistic Process Of Planning, Preparing, Dining And Sharing Food. I Place Food At The Center Of Our Humanity, As It Nourishes Not Only Our Physical Bodies But Also Our Emotional And Spiritual Lives. Food Is Truly A Cultural Phenomenon That Informs Our Traditions And Our Relationship With The Earth. I Genuinely Believe That Food Connects Us All.

At 15, I Had To Choose A Vocational School, And I Was Delighted, Of Course, To Go To Culinary School. But Learning The Basics Was Not As Exciting As Being The Chef I Am Today.