Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

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.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

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

Health food makes me sick.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.