A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

I once saw you in a tuxedo and all I wanted to do is eat.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.