I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.