I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

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.

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

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.