32 Quotes by Rocco DiSpirito

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.