Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.

At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.