When you use Tabasco in the marinade, it kind of infuses everything.

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

Breakfast is the best time for me to figure out what my kids are doing. Right after you wake them up at breakfast, you pepper them with questions. You can get in there because they're not protecting what they thought was cool: "What happened yesterday?" "Oh, Matthew stole my book and ran away and it was really annoying..." That wouldn't happen after lunch, because their defenses are up. In the morning, if you lull them into a comfortable place, you get more honesty, and that's without being a detective.

Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.

It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.