No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't even aware of the phenomenon of what was going on in food television, what you started with the Food Network.