What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers.

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'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.