The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.

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

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

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.