Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?

I love bacon, but I don't think we need it on everything.

A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creative freedom as anyone's ever had in the history of television.

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

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