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

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.

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.

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.