At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

I'm a girl, and I'm a cook- I just like to cook, and I don't like to worry about the distinctions. We're just supposed to make good food.

My food, I think, is big. It's aggressive, it's aggressively seasoned, and it's hearty.

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It's a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage - whatever that means. It's not a 9-5 job.

My mom was a great cook and also a very creative cook.