When You Add Just A Little Bit

I Can Tell In Two Minutes If I Should Hire Someone In The Kitchen. Two Minutes. It's His Desire. It's That Open-eyed, Attentive Expression. If He Doesn't Have It ... I Mean, I Can Teach A Chimp How To Cook Dinner. But I Cannot Teach A Chimp How To Love It.

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.

Jimmy Fallon And I Play Regularly At The Bayonne Golf Club In Jersey. He's Eighteen Holes Of Fun. Any Time We Play He Has Moments Of Brilliance, But Also Moments Of Utter Catastrophe.

Italy Itself Has 21 Different Micro-regions. You Go Within Each Of Those Regions, There's Even Super-micro-regions; And The Beauty Is That When You Go From Place To Place, Although There's A Common Thread Of Pasta And Joie De Vivre - In The Way That They Approach Their Meals And The Simplicity Of Cooking, Celebrating More The Product Than The Chef - There's Still So Much Variety That As You Go, It's Always An Exciting Moment.

Food, Like Most Things, Is Best When Left To Its Own Simple Beauty.