All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

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 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.

He'd known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Racism is a big problemCreated by small minds

Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Americans are good at herding Bison. The end.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.