"The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why."
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"What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?"
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"I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books."
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"I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there."
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"I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it."
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"I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it."
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"I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime."
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"I have the best job in the world."
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"Without new ideas success can become stale"
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"Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage."
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"On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing."
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"I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested."
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"Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures."
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"If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me."
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"Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great."
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"I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period."
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"I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics."
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"The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength."
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"I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing."
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"It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about."
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