My Mantra Was To Educate People -

I Grill Almost All Of My Fish With The Skin On Because That Gives You Real Protection At Least On One Side. It's A Nice Barrier Against Super High Heat Which Tends To Make A Lot Of Fish To Turn Really Flaky. It's Very Easy To Overcook Fish On The Grill. But I Still Brush It With Oil Before I Start.

Although I Don't Take Myself Very Seriously, I Do Take My Work Extraordinarily Seriously.

You Know We Fixate On The Food So Much Itself: “oh, The Ultimate Brownie Or The Ultimate This Or That” -- Well, Let Me Tell You Something: It’s All Poop In About 12 Hours, Okay? The Real Power That Food Has Is Its Ability To Connect Human Beings To Each Other -- That’s The Stuff Right There And, To Me, Everything Else Is Secondary To That.

Gluttony Is Wrong. It's Wasteful.

'outlaw Cook' Was A Revelation. Folks Like Jeff Smith And Marcella Hazan Got Me Interested In Cooking, But John Thorne Pushed Me Into The Path That I Follow To This Day. This Is The Only Cookbook I've Ever Read That Understands How Men Really Eat: Over The Sink, In The Dark, Greasy To The Elbows.