The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.