I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

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I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

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The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

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Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

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A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

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