I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

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

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.