I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.
The starting point is a question.
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
reading is at the beginning of the social contract
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.
I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.
Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.