I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.