In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

You might be a redneck if people hear your car long before they see it.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.