About 30 years ago I was trying to find a good Mexican restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area. There were three advertising on the radio, so I tried each one. I got food poisoning at each one.

My friend Tom Palado was from Mexico City, and knew that I like Mexican food and was sick for days after eating at local Mexican restaurants. I said, “Tom, where can I get good Mexican food”? Tom answered, “That’s easy! My mom’s house”!




>I am 40 years old, but still when making a burrito I almost always put too much filling in it. I get too enthused about all of the yummy ingredients that I end of with this overstuff pillow like thing that breaks apart when I eat it. Then just long enough time passes before I have them again that I forget this lesson. I guess it is sort of like making a pizza, it hard to show restraint, but if you do it turns out so good.