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

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.

The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.