Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-….

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant..

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of..

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious..

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas..

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page..

I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed..

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invit….

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English..

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it i….

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically..

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work..

The price of purity is purists..

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism..

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen….

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before th….

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book..

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?.

There's always a source for humor..

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his ag….