I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.