Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.

As life is a breath, savoring is a held exhale, a placeholder for joy.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

They have no electric, no nothing. And they're cooking food by the pots out on their grills. And they're just overly friendly here. And here they're the ones that are basically down and out.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

On the Food Network cooking shows they have an entire staff to make all of this happen and it's great to know we're doing the same thing with just a few of us.