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"If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay."

"They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'"

"Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste."

"I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's."

"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."
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"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."

"I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me."

"My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up."

"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."

"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."

"The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years."

"I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking."
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