I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.