My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.

The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.