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.

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

The price of purity is purists.

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.