When they figure out how to bottle up orgasms and sell them as a food additive, I’ll be first in line.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result.

Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture.

I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.

I’ve swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

Lollypop…the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks…

I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served...

The Decision…I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before…

If that’s the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake,” Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, “I’m all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

glorious and whimsical,” as the Key West Citizen had promised.

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking...

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay

All I have besides food is grief.

I had a lump in my throat the size of a bundt cake pan.

Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is

A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.