I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception of life.

I should avoid that emotion, when I laugh I always think that I'm somehow an a guy who lowers his IQ.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.