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

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

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

My wife was easy because she trains [jiu-jitsu] all the time. She's pretty much on a completely different diet. I always just threw meat at her and she's happy on a 100 percent protein diet, so we seldom ate together.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.