If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.