Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

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.

I’d rather live one year with Love, Peace & Joy, than live 10 years with Worry, Anxiety & Hatred. It is not how long I live but how well I live.

We laughed together. It’s so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed…

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

We determine our Destination by our priorities.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

I think if you're gonna run your mouth at somebody and they call you out on it - that's it!