Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.