Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

Patience is the secret to good food.

You can't fake being able to cook well.

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.