I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.