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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.