When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my ow….

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardini….

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a con….

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times..

What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your p….

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience..

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen..

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, y….

I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those prefere….

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious ….

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else..

I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying….

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that..

Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in sear….

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to rep….

As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them..

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thi….

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids….

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and ….

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arb….

Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welc….