You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

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.

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.