I love to cook; that's my passion.

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.

How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know.

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Country music has the great stories.

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

Men choose a religion, but a Christian is chosen by Jesus Christ.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.