I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

For me, there is no better tapa than a really good stuffed olive.

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.

Iberico de Bellota is best when cooked medium rare with a nice, pink center to allow the delicious acorn-infused flavor to come through.

Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.

A plancha is just a hot flat surface. So if you think about it, anything is a plancha, like a saute pan or a griddle. A la plancha is the perfect way to cook for a crowd.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.

I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.

My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it's a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer's market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

When you use a simple gelatin like collagen, you can get flavor that is 100 percent pure, maybe event 150 percent.

Italians allow anything in their cooking.

Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

Chef Michel Richard is always at the top of his game.

We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.