I Had A Fierce Curiosity About This

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.

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 Cool Thing Is That Now That People Have Made This Evolution Where Cooking Is Cool, People Are Doing It On Weekends, They're Doing Their Own Challenges. It's Back To Cooking. And It's Real Cooking.

I Was On The Board Of Andre Agassi's Foundation, And Seeing The Way It Operated Blew My Mind. In 2002, I Told My Wife, I Want To Start A Foundation To Give Back, I Want It To Be For Kids In Hard Circumstances, And I Want It To Be Culinary-driven, Because That's Who I Am.

I Mean, If You Love What You Do-whether You're An Auto Mechanic Or You Sew Clothes Or You Cook-it's All About Personal Passion And Love That Really Makes The Thrust To The Level That You Want To Get It To.