In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.

Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

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.