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

These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.