“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.”

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.

You don’t learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you’re not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

The crowd is not us. It never is.

In normal life, ‘simplicity’ is synonymous with ‘easy to do,’ but when a chef uses the word, it means ‘takes a lifetime to learn.’

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can’t do.

May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

Defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It’s kind of a nightmare.

You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

“Patience is to faith, as the head is to the body.”

If we can trust each other and leave everything-all our hearts-out on the field, I think we’re going to have something to come home to and cheer about.

You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else