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

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.