You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.

Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.