Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.

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.

We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.