Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.