Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

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

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.