We want to find out which courses are better on an hour and a half schedule and which courses are better on a 55 minute schedule.

My passion is food not politics. I just listen to people and then I go and get their iced tea.

We have a very loyal following. Our customers tend to be more intelligent about food and they're more concerned about whether we have fresh herbs and use free-range eggs.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.