Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

If you don't follow your dream, who will?

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do.

Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you.

Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others.

No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Dogs are miracles with paws.

In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).