Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.