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.

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

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.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

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

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.