For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.