I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.

Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural.

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

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

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.