In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.