I had a fierce curiosity about this food thing.

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.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.