The Passion to Be Better by Joe Sasto

You can teach anyone how to cook, you can teach anyone how to cut an onion, you can teach anyone how to make a sauce, but you can't teach someone that inner desire to be better.


I get obsessed, almost to a fault, where I just spend all of my brain power, my waking moments, my sleeping moments, thinking about that thing and wanting to learn as much as I can about it until I feel like I can teach it to someone else.


I spent years reading [Italian cook] books and learning that you couldn't put something on the menu unless you had that and I read the reasoning behind it. Now that I know all of those rules, I want nothing more than to just break them.


Pasta is the marriage of the noodle and the sauce.

I'm a firm believer that if someone is happy when they're cooking, the food's gonna taste better.