“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”

“I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.”

“Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.”

“St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.”

“Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.”

“I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.”

“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?”