Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

When you use it in cooked foods, it changes [the Tabasco flavor] a little bit; it loses a little bit of the bright acid that you love on it, but you get that more cooked heat and chile flavor down.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

What I like to do when I go out is enjoy my friends and the food around it. If we have to stop and give five minutes to the chef, then I'm down with that. But if the chef has to interrupt every course to tell us how important this new revolution that's happening is, then I'm not so much interested in that.

Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.