Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Only Texans and Jews understand brisket

People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.