I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

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

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.