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I Think Any Way Of Getting People Into The Field By Lowering The Threshold Of The Cost To Get Them To Play, Is Great. That Said, There's All These Restaurants Around That Are Very Popular That Have One Menu. And They Don't Even Have Tables, And They Don't Even Have Backs On Their Chairs. It's Not Really The Experience I'm After, But I'm Happy They Exist.

Every Super Bowl, I Do Different Food Each Quarter From Each Of The Hometowns Of The Teams Competing. So I’m Always Hoping For Cities With A Gastronomic Soul—not So Much Indianapolis Or Denver, Right? For Halftime We Have New York Hot Dogs From Papaya Dog. And At The End Of The Game I’ve Chosen A Dessert Based On Who I Think Is Going To Win.

Everyone Makes Pesto In A Food Processor. But The Texture Is Better With A Mortar And Pestle, And It's Just As Fast.

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Italy Itself Has 21 Different Micro-regions. You Go Within Each Of Those Regions, There's Even Super-micro-regions; And The Beauty Is That When You Go From Place To Place, Although There's A Common Thread Of Pasta And Joie De Vivre - In The Way That They Approach Their Meals And The Simplicity Of Cooking, Celebrating More The Product Than The Chef - There's Still So Much Variety That As You Go, It's Always An Exciting Moment.