When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!

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

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

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.