Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.