To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.