I Would Challenge Any American

I've Been Lucky Enough In 20 Years In The Media To Have A Nice Soap Box That Put Me In A Position To Describe To An American Viewership That Tuscany Is Different From Umbria, And It's Different From Emilia-romagna And, Not That That Was News, But It Was Never Presented To Them In A Way That Was, "hey, Look. This Is A Different Plate From That Different Place." And Although We All Think Of "spaghetti, Lasagna, Ciao," As What Italy Is All About, There's All Of This Great Stuff... I Was Merely An Interpreter. I Wasn't The Developer Of The Content.

To Eat The Boiled Head Of A Pig Sliced Like Salami Is Very Strange. It May Seem Cutting Edge, But It's Actually A Lot Older Than Any Of The Other Traditional Salami.

The Perfect Recipe For A Margarita Is 2 Ounces Tequila, 2 Ounces Fresh Lime Juice, 1 Ounce Cointreau, And A Tiny Splash Of Some Kind Of An Agave Or Orange Juice.

You Have To Be Generous If You Want To Spend Your Time Making Someone Else Dinner. Even If You're Charging, You're Still Giving.

In America, I Would Say New York And New Orleans Are The Two Most Interesting Food Towns. In New Orleans, They Don't Have A Bad Deli. There's No Mediocrity Accepted.