I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

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.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

Drink from the cup of life, you will be fulfilled.Yet...drink from the milk container in the fridge, and your wife will make you wish that you had drunk from the cup of life.

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.