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I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

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Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

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I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.

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In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.

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You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.

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There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?

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You want to be the baddest guy in the kitchen and you want the person next to you to know it.

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I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

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I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

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A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: August 15th, 1962

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