A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.

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

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.

Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

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