He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.
I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.
It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.
I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!
Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.
There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not afraid to take risks.
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
