I do the meatball recipe a lot. I think the army stew probably too. It's the most useful dish because it was born out of necessity and poverty and an….

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher..

My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist..

Drink heavily with locals whenever possible..

I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else.….

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets..

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why..

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she's proud of the fac….

This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out….

I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, rev….

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certaint….

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve..

When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong….

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics..

Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving che….

I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come clos….

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world..

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit..

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again..

An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the….

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure..