I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.

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.

I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.

I hate using the word coagulant.

Remember, America: organization will set you free.

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.