The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart”.

Born to sell :)

Don’t challenge the world before becoming a big fire

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?