I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

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

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

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'm most comfortable in T-shirts, but they have to have some style to them.