"Mmm. This is comfort food. This feels like someone just came up and gave you a hug."

"What I enjoyed was the thought of turning the top sirloin, into a meatball. But the problem is, is the texture of the lobster mushroom. Lobster mushroom takes a long time to soften." 

"When I think of comfort food, I think of food that you don't necessarily have to chew as much."

"The grits is delicious, and the sauce is delicious. And I was raised in meatball country. Making meatball with beef is very hard because it gets dry easily. This is not dry. The pancetta and everything really played a big part of that."

"Can I just say something about the sweetbread? Because I feel like that's a very unusual choice to choose sweet breads, and they're very soft and very delicate, and putting them into a meatball, I've never even heard of it, but it does give it a really nice texture. It's soft, so I think that was a smart choice and elevated it somewhat from just meatballs and grits."

"I can taste the smoke, although it doesn't beat me over the head. You know, it's subtle."