I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.