I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about

I keep the "ThunderCats" thermos safely in the kitchen.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

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.