There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.

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.

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.

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.