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.

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.

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.

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.

Communication is not about the sender or receiver

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

Here words can kill - literally.

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.