The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

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.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

Faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ will provide strength and capacity needed for a successful life.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.