The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.