"I think the way to anybody’s heart is through their stomach. The way to my heart is through my stomach - with a really great bowl of spaghetti."
"Behind every foodie, there is probably a foodiot. We all have our own inner foodiots. You just have to stamp them down."
"I hate doing events where you basically just serve something, and then people get drunk. They’re almost all the same."
"In San Francisco the audience is easy. You put tripe in a bowl and tell them it’s from a humanely raised cow and they’re going to eat it . . . New York is totally different."
"I should have a cooking show, or at least a cook book. I'm a damn good cook. I should have my own restaurant."
"I could make a great argument that critics should be as anonymous as possible, and I could also turn around and make the argument to you that it’s overrated. I’m going to refrain from doing either because I’m not sure how my successor is going to handle it."
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