I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

Eating big meals makes you want to eat more.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.