My New Year's Resolution Is To Cut

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.

My Mother And My Grandmother Would Make An Apple Tart In Different Styles, And I Had One Per Day. Every Day I Would Eat One Full Apple Tart.

When I Started To Work In Paris In Fine Dining, The Passion Really Kicked In, And I Knew That I Would Not, For The Rest Of My Life, Do Anything Else.

The Importance Of Reading, For Me, Is That It Allows You To Dream. Reading Not Only Educates, But Is Relaxing And Allows You To Feed Your Imagination - Creating Beautiful Pictures From Carefully Chosen Words.

Obviously California Is Fantastic In Terms Of Produce, Vegetables.