Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

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.

Wonderful souls make life wonderful.

, m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

General Taylor never surrenders.

I have moments, like a guy saying to me on the tube, "You know, you look a lot like Jessie Ware."

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.