I'm too tired to hate.

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

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

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.