When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.

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

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

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

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.