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

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.