Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.