People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something.

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.