I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

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.

Heavenly Father, let there be light in every dark corner.

The idea of a random stranger walking up to me one day and saying, 'Hey, baby, you smell like forever. Let's do it, ' isn't all that appealing honestly.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

Theres a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.