Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

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.

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

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.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom

Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.

TV is just a huge tablet. It’s just a platform to consume long-form video.

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.