You have to live life to its full chorizo.

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.

Kršćanin koji je izgubio vedrinu, postao je beživotan i više je svjedok protiv vjere nego za vjeru.

Love and care can transform the impossible to possible and ugliness into beauty.

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

Like everybody and trust no one.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.