Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

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

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

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

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.

People say, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Because people do wild and crazy things in Vegas that they probably wouldn't do any other time. Which is why I feel like, if you're gonna open your first restaurant, this might be the place to do it.