The dog's happiness comes first.

The sauce is the least healthy but you can serve it with a different type of sauce.

All a recipe is is a road map -- how to get from Point A to Point B. In the recreational books, it's a lot more descriptive. Cooking isn't brain surgery. It isn't rocket science. It's the application of some basic principles. It just takes some experience.

The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn't have a clue about cooking, and they're lost. There's a gap and it's just part of the culture.

Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.

A happy man eagerly awaits the rising of the sun.