Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.