You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.