Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it.

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.