Luck is not a business model.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

My family is very far from normal.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.