Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear – things like hamburgers and hot dogs – were road food but even before they were road food they were peasant food.
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy – and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
I kept thinking 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time… a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus I hated my job – I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
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.
Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
The kitchen's a laboratory and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology chemistry physics. Yes there's history. Yes there's artistry. Yes to all of that. But what happened there what actually happens to the food is all science.
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job you know? Eat. And I do!
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth – I just hate what is being done with it.
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens Georgia and managed to get on um working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.