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When You Cut That Eggplant Up And You Roast It In The Oven And You Make The Tomato Sauce And You Put It On Top, Your Soul Is In That Food, And There's Something About That That Can Never Be Made By A Company That Has Three Million Employees.

Breakfast Is The Best Time For Me To Figure Out What My Kids Are Doing. Right After You Wake Them Up At Breakfast, You Pepper Them With Questions. You Can Get In There Because They're Not Protecting What They Thought Was Cool: "what Happened Yesterday?" "oh, Matthew Stole My Book And Ran Away And It Was Really Annoying..." That Wouldn't Happen After Lunch, Because Their Defenses Are Up. In The Morning, If You Lull Them Into A Comfortable Place, You Get More Honesty, And That's Without Being A Detective.

When You Use Tabasco In The Marinade, It Kind Of Infuses Everything.

What I Like To Do When I Go Out Is Enjoy My Friends And The Food Around It. If We Have To Stop And Give Five Minutes To The Chef, Then I'm Down With That. But If The Chef Has To Interrupt Every Course To Tell Us How Important This New Revolution That's Happening Is, Then I'm Not So Much Interested In That.

Once You Become An Elaborate And Well-developed Culture, Anything From Rome Or The Etruscans, For That Matter, The Food Starts To Become A Representation Of What The Culture Is. When The Food Can Transcend Being Just Fuel, That's When You Start To See These Different Permutations.