If You're Going To Buy

If I Hear Something's Not Quite Going Right, Then I'm There Quicker Than If I Hear Something's Going Wrong.

In Growing Up In Seattle, I Don't Know A Single Family That Didn't Barbecue Or Cook On The Weekends And Make Its Own Kind Of Simple, Pared-down, What I Call Pacific Northwest Cooking.

If You Go To Italy And You Drive From The Airport To The Town, There Isn't 30 Square Feet That Isn't Planted By Someone. Even Next To The Train Tracks, They See The Joy Of The Interaction With The Planet As Integral To The Experience. The Idea That You Can Get Free Arugula Just By Planting Seeds... Because It Will Regrow Itself The Next Year. We've Come A Long Way From Foraging To Now Planting. The Next Step Of That Will Be Continuing That Expansion Of Planting And Really Owning The Crops.

Food, Like Most Things, Is Best When Left To Its Own Simple Beauty.

Even Though You'll See Gnocchi Or Linguine Everywhere In Some Of The Regions Of Italy, Each Of Those Chefs Has Their Own Expression Of That Which Expresses More About The Place They Were Exactly Born Than It Does About Trying To Be A Part Of The Greater Mass. And That's The Italian Culture.