In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.