I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.

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.

The creative hopeless.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

I had no Freedom. I had nothing.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

No man is a hero to his own valet.