Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman, ' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

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.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

America ain’t three fifths bad.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.