If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

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

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever