"St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis."
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
Oscar Wilde on Food"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
Ronald Reagan on Food"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."
Ronald Reagan on Food"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
Yogi Berra on Food"Beware the hobby that eats."
Benjamin Franklin on Food"I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here."
"I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude."
"Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'"
"The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool."
"I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV."