In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.