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"You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian."
"I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve."
"I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things."
"If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones."
"I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant."
"Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine."
"America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets."
"My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently."
"Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better shape than me. Often people who are much bigger and wider than me. It can be dispiriting at first."
"It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me."
"I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers."
"My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus."
"When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat."
"If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets."
"Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welcome you and dote after the kid. They don't treat you like you just brought in this horrible probably soon-to-be-squealing creature who's going to be difficult."
"In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately."
"In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that."
"I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life."
"I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie."
"I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres."