It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.