Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

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.

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.

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.

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Finish is a laundry powder. I feel guilty when I finish a book.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.

Living is risking.

If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

After my bypass surgery I knew I had to change my lifestyle, and then it occured to me - I don't have a lifestyle.

I was raised by a single mother.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.