People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

With more and more fast food available, it takes an extra effort to cook delicious, healthy meals. I have always been a proponent of simple, easy food that doesn't take forever to cook so you really can eat well at home.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.