So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

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.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

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

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for.

I'm holding a media mutiny.

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.