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

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

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.

'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.

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.