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It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.