My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

You've got to be happy in your own skin.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.