My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.

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

The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.

If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes.

Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.