I do like artfully breaking rules.

I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

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.

Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch.

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.