As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

I don't eat a lot of anything. A little bit of everything, but not a lot of everything. Small meals all day long.

I'm not just a female chef. I'm a woman in a brand new hotel, and that's why I think it's so perfect to be at the Cromwell, in a corner of one of the busiest intersections of the world, with my name in lights. It's different in all those sorts of ways, and I'm hoping I'll be able to carry that through. Because if I can't, it's a step back for women in general. People will say - men will say - "See, that's why it's mostly men".