"In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently."
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"I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me."
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"I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast."
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"My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes."
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"I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook today, it's what makes me happy. I tend to overcompensate for my long absences when I'm home by cooking and it's therapeutic to me - it's how I express love for my daughter. It felt good to do."
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"I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar."
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"If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog."
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"I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more."
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"Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash."
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"Drugs didn't work out too well for me."
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"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."
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"I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation."
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"I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing."
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"I do my very best to avoid shark fin."
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"The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe."
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"I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant."
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"The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in France, which was all about motorists and seeing if it was worth driving an extra 50 miles for a restaurant. It's a silly thing. Why do you want to help a tire company? You don't owe them nothing."
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"It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't."
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"Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people."
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"I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food."
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