I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].
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I’ve always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.
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One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health
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If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, “What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire,” I’d be like, “That’s moose nose!”
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This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.
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There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.
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I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, “He knows where the good food is,” which is an awesome correlative. It’s an awesome simplification.
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I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.
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I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That’s one kick-ass dragon. It’s basically a giant puppy dragon.
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It’s the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.
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He said, “For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they’ve seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that.”
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Generally speaking, there’s a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage.
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The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater.
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I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it’s probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.
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A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.
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I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Now I’m on a mouth-watering journey to find America’s greatest pig-out spots.
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It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
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We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew.
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He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button
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They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.
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