I'm Like A Really Goofy Home Ec

Stuffing Is Evil. Stuffing Adds Mass, So It Slows The Cooking. That's Evil Because The Longer The Bird Cooks, The Drier It Will Be.

That's The Ultimate Goal Of Most Turkey Recipes: To Create A Great Skin And Stuffing To Hide The Fact That Turkey Meat, In Its Cooked State, Is Dry And Flavorless. Does It Have To Be That Way? No. We Just Have To Focus On What The Turkey Is And What The Turkey Needs.

My Mantra Was To Educate People - To Actually Give Them The Know-how They Could Use - And To Do It In A Very Subversive Kind Of Way. I Would Entertain Them, And I Was Going To Teach Them Whether They Knew It Or Not.

A Balanced Diet May Be The Best Medicine. I Was Eating Too Much Good Eats. But People Consider That Part Of Your Job, You Know? Eat. And I Do!

I Approach Cooking From A Science Angle Because I Need To Understand How Things Work. If I Understand The Egg, I Can Scramble It Better. It's A Simple As That.