Alex Guarnaschelli

I love roasted beets with goat cheese. I am also a fruit addict. ”

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. ”

I like to take a day off and enjoy fast food for what it is. I have to say that in New York, I'm really partial about taco trucks. I mean, I really can't handle it. There is something about catching all those ingredients piled on top of each other: it puts me in a tizzy. I love it. I'm kind of a taco truck junkie. ”

When we talk about chefs, we often talk about their love of food or their passion for it, but cooking is also about making a living; it's a job. ”

I'm interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living. ”

I love watching a single pork chop seasoned with garlic and shallots cook and see the fat bubble around it. ”

Walnuts are so rich. I also love that you can chew them for five minutes. Then I eat a couple of golden raisins as a palate cleanser because they are really tart, and then more walnuts. It's a great snack for me. ”

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught. ”

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.' ”

I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache. ”