Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

Your patience will be rewarded.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.