I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.