Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.