It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

They're not going to be able to go to bed earlier. When you ask kids to get up earlier to be in school, all that's going to happen is you're going to deduct time from their nighttime sleep.