Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all the adults at the table and all the kids at the other end of the table. Maybe they run off and go play.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

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

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.