#capset

“Because of my parents, I could become a monk. And I prayed for them to be happy in the next life. Even today, when I see something beautiful, or make or see beautiful food, I thank my parents for their energy and virtue.The food I make is an expression of gratitude to my parents. They let me become who I am.”

“When you cook with fires, when you build with fires, it’s a bit like making love. It could be huge, strong. Or it could grow very slowly in ashes and little coals. And that’s the biggest beauty of fire. It goes from 0 to 10 in strength, and in between 0 and 10, you have all these little peaks and different ways of cooking with it and it’s very tender and very fragile.”

“Because of my culture, I’m uncomfortable with trying to make loud, bold statements. I could do that in food. The food can be an egomaniac. It could be loud. It could be aggressive. It could be all these things that I personally am not comfortable being. It allows me to have crazy ideas or experiment, to not follow the rules.”

Summer Camp, 2015.