The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

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

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.