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"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it."

"Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone."

"Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run."

"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position."

"It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out."

"In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard."

"There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines."

"I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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