Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Beans are a real go-to for me.