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There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

My wife doesn't cook, so we eat out every night. It's not fine dining or anything - we're not fancy people.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.

In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves. This is the only city I've ever lived in where I eat out every night.

It's just an American tradition to make sure people don't leave hungry. The worst thing is to have them say, 'Great dinner, but now I have to go get a burger.'

I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.