As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.