Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.