What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.

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.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

She doesn’t like you, McNab.“I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.