I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

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.

It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

America, there’s no question that you’ve had my heart from the beginning. By now you have to know that

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.