Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.
I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.
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.
When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.
I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.
I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.
I never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low.
I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.
I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.
I don't like to be polarizing. It's not who I am.
I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.
I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.
