Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.
Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'
We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.
I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.
I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.
Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.
Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.
As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.
Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
