Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

You don't get second chances in the real world.

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.