I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

I jokingly refer to the word "gourmet" as the "g" word.

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.

I'm a real food know-it-all.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain.

Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.

The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.

It is increasingly apparent that we must act now as climate change is accelerating. Climate change threatens both our security and our economic development. Failure to take decisive action will have a dramatic impact.

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

This is who I am. I am proud at any size. And I love you, and want you to be proud in any form you may take as well.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.