I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook today, it's what makes me happy. I tend to overcompensate for my long absences when I'm home by cooking and it's therapeutic to me - it's how I express love for my daughter. It felt good to do.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Without new ideas success can become stale

Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.