I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

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

Good food and good eating are about risk.