Oatmeal is a cheap and healthy breakfast.

Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.

I stand behind everything I've done.

Spices, of course, are essential.

If only my love was a net that could keep the flies out. If only my love was a net full of food for all the hungry bellies. I understand why so many people have given up on Africa – no one wants to say we are leaving a continent of people behind to tough it out in a hundreds-of-years-old war of survival, but we are, and the reason is because the level of change it would take to make a difference, to heal past wounds and chart a new path is mammoth, gargantuan, almost unimaginable.

Bookstores are a giant present waiting to be unwrapped, full of stories and discoveries and lives.

I’m a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can’t feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it’s no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

That gave us enough time to get a shot of Ethiopian coffee, espresso style. Nothing tastes better than Ethiopian coffee; almost everywhere you go, it is roasted right before it’s brewed. In the United States, we think it’s a big deal if you wait to grind the beans before you make coffee. Here, the benchmark for freshness is miles higher.