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I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

I am a fantastic cook. It's my great passion.

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

As chefs, especially pastry chefs, your creativity plays such an important part in your daily work. We truly do have a blank canvas to work with every time we create a new dish.

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

I love to cook and entertain.