"Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time."
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"I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like."
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"I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore."
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"At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift."
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"Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way."
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"There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military."
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"'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia."
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"I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones."
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"A burger is something anyone can do, just follow the rules."
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"I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything."
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"I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days."
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"The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe."
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"If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would."
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"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."
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"My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist."
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"I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun."
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"My family is very far from normal."
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"The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon."
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"When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at."
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"People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras."
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