I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.