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Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

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The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.

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The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

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I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

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Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

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Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.

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I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

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I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.

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Writing about food is my default.

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World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: January 16th, 1948

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