Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

When you train your thoughts to dissolve as they arise, they will cross your mind like a bird crosses the sky--without leaving a trace.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.