If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

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.

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

Giving does not only preceed receiving

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Seriously, I like to wear hats so I don't get super tan. You have to protect the face.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Close your outer eyes and open your inner eyes.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.