You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

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.

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.

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

I am living breathing freedom.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.