Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.