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What I Like To Do When I Go Out Is Enjoy My Friends And The Food Around It. If We Have To Stop And Give Five Minutes To The Chef, Then I'm Down With That. But If The Chef Has To Interrupt Every Course To Tell Us How Important This New Revolution That's Happening Is, Then I'm Not So Much Interested In That.

When I Was In College, I Used To Write Little Ditties And Short Stories And Poetry For My Friends. Writing A Book Is Another Thing. It Is So Much Different From My Traditional Day Of Dirty Fingernails And Greasy Hair And Hot Pans.

I Love Simple Food. I Like To Serve The Entire Animal, Not Only Because It Somehow Provokes A Customer To Think About It, But Also Because To Honor Of The Animal That Has Been Killed For Us To Eat, You Have To Eat The Whole Thing. It Would Be Silly To Just Eat The Chops And Throw Everything Else Away.

In Growing Up In Seattle, I Don't Know A Single Family That Didn't Barbecue Or Cook On The Weekends And Make Its Own Kind Of Simple, Pared-down, What I Call Pacific Northwest Cooking.

The Idea Of Having Dinner Together Every Day With Your Family Removes The Pressure From Trying To Explain Everything. You Tell Us The Good Parts About Your Day, But You Also Tell Us The Bad Parts About Your Day. And At The End Of That, Because You're In A Ritual, You Remove The Pressure Of Admitting You Had A Failure That Day. And It Also Takes The Wind Out Of Having A Great Day. I Mean, It Makes You A Little Bit More Normal All The Time. That Moment Of Therapeutic Sharing Is Something That Happens In Food, That Doesn't Necessarily Happen When You're Watching Tv.