I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Life may be circular but its circumference keeps getting wider for us to grow.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.

Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.