The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!
I loved having Indian take-aways on a Friday night in Liverpool, but it's so different in the real India.
I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
I'd been travelling in Romania. It was 1990, just after the revolution and you couldn't buy anything so we'd been eating basic food. We went to McDonald's and, I'm ashamed to say, it was wonderful. I hate McDonald's normally.
Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.
I tried one tiny piece of kangaroo, which I never thought I would try, and it was actually pretty good. I probably wouldn't eat it again, but it was still pretty good.
Food should be fun.
The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.
Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food.
Food is much better off the hand than the fork.
I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.
... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.
In Singapore, I'd spend the majority of my time at hawker centres because the food there is incredible.
Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually hate ribollita, and the people I was traveling with thought I was crazy for ordering it.
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
Eating has to be fun.
And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
