The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.

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.

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

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.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.

It's hard for me not to be extraordinarily cute. I had to fight it.