However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

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

Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.