One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and "New York" elements while ... having their own flavor.

It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.