Jose Garces

My family came from Ecuador.

There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.