The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!.

Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipli….

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught ….

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff..

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream..

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun..

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers..

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about..

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones..

I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I w….

Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay….

For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the phys….

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle..

We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they'll get a TV show. They have a signature haircut, a year int….

Look, getting bullied in school and coming home crying in the rain and my mom making me a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup with some oysterettes. It was….

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later..

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to facto….

A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, ….

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to ….

I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we wan….

I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water..