The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.