One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.
There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.
Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.
Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.
Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.
Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.
You have to live life to its full chorizo.
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.
Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.
The American Dream is ownership a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.
I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
