After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated if capital and population increased more food would be required and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality buy organic buy natural go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook period.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately instead of at three o clock in the morning.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate and that gives me the motivation to continue.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played in terms of message discipline in terms of access for reporters and especially in the way that sources and subjects especially famous subjects treat the media almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Normally I name my characters after famous comedians.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool then obviously the Beatles and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.