Even Though You'll See Gnocchi Or Linguine

The Idea Of Having Dinner Together Every Day With Your Family Removes The Pressure From Trying To Explain Everything. You Tell Us The Good Parts About Your Day, But You Also Tell Us The Bad Parts About Your Day. And At The End Of That, Because You're In A Ritual, You Remove The Pressure Of Admitting You Had A Failure That Day. And It Also Takes The Wind Out Of Having A Great Day. I Mean, It Makes You A Little Bit More Normal All The Time. That Moment Of Therapeutic Sharing Is Something That Happens In Food, That Doesn't Necessarily Happen When You're Watching Tv.

Chefs Don't Actually Say 'that's A Spicy Meat-a-ball,' Except To Indicate That There's A Bomb Threat In The Restaurant Without Alarming The Customers. Terrorism Is The Spiciest Meatball There Is.

We Need To Figure Out A 'harvest System' To Collect The Produce That Stores Don't Put Out For Customers To Buy Because It's Not Perfect Looking. Frankly, The Stuff Left To Rot In The Storeroom Is More Beautiful To Me Than The Perfect Carrot. I'm A Gnarly Carrot Kind Of Guy.

When You Taste Things In The Right Order, Sometimes They Taste So Much Different Than If You Taste Them Out Of Order. Not That There's A Right Order, Like By Rule, But Just Like In A Thoughtful Way That Makes Sense.

I'm Pretty Confident That The Seafood From The Northeastern Atlantic Is One Of The Most Delicious And Unique In The Country, So That We Can Represent That In A Way That The Italians Like To Represent Things.