Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any one of TV shows takes twice as long to watch as that, which I think is very interesting because the main excuse people give for not cooking is they don't have time to cook, but somehow they're finding time to watch other people cook or eat on TV.

We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.