Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

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

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, "Cooking is my job, and studying is your job." I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.