A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without.

I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

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.

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.