One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.