I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

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.

I've been lucky enough in 20 years in the media to have a nice soap box that put me in a position to describe to an American viewership that Tuscany is different from Umbria, and it's different from Emilia-Romagna and, not that that was news, but it was never presented to them in a way that was, "Hey, look. This is a different plate from that different place." And although we all think of "spaghetti, lasagna, ciao," as what Italy is all about, there's all of this great stuff... I was merely an interpreter. I wasn't the developer of the content.