Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

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.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer.