It’s very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I’m not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
I’ve leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we’re keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it’s refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I’ve learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
I am much more interested in the process than results.
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I’ve been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It’s just something I’m passionate about.
I’m in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he’d be a great guest at any dinner party.
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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Well, we don’t take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that’s true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
Never comment on a woman’s rear end. Never use the words “large” or “size” with “rear end.” Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.
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Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn’t go far didn’t see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
They don’t have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.
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I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.
I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
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Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.
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Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.
Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.
Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.
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I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.
Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.