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"I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?"
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"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."

"California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there."

"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."

"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."

"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
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"I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day."

"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."

"I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school."

"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."

"You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?"

"Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving."
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