Your Patience Will Be Rewarded.

In The End, All Journeys Are Spiritual. So Go Off The Main Road. Be Givers Of Hospitality And Gracious Takers Of It Too. Accept The Serendipitous Moments Of Life Because, When All Is Said And Done, You May Find Out That They Were Not Serendipitous At All. And Know That Faith Is As Real As Bread Broken Among Friends. What You Believe Will Take You Far On Your Journey. If You Search Carefully, You Will Find Good Food All Along The Way.

'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.

I Think In The End There Are Only 20 Or 30 Tenets Of Basic Cooking. It's Going At Perhaps The Same Issue From Different Angles, From Different Points Of View, From Different Presentation Styles, That Really Makes Things Sink In And Become Embedded.

I Had Kicked Around The Idea For Good Eats When I Was Directing Commercials.

My First Book Is Really About Heat. That Book, For Me, Was An Exploration Of Heat As Ingredient. Why We Don't Talk About Heat As An Ingredient, I Don't Quite Understand, Because It Is The Common Ingredient To All Cooking Processes.