The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

I might use milk if I was using a touch of milk to make like a lasagna or a baked pasta. But cream? That is totally not the way they do it in Italy, and it's not a very good thing. It's kind of a blanket for flavor.

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

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.

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

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

I really want to be a rock star.