I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

As we get toward the end of the winter season and early spring, we'll probably go through another wave of elevated energy prices, and it will bode ill for discretionary consumer spending. Consumer spending might be rather lackluster for some time, perhaps a year or two. In the end we're going to [see] a consumer that's saving more, is more cautious, and a little more spendthrift.

This is intensely nutritious because you have all the different vegetables and you really don't need the meat, ... ... mushrooms replace the meat and it still has a rich meaty taste.

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

Always have something to look forward to.