If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa..

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for….

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt..

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator….

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high he….

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles….

I hate using the word coagulant..

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos f….

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is….

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living..

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite se….

All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating..

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words..

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points….

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I f….

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be..

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying..

The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it..

I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the ….

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured..