Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

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

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

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.

I think the more prominent the actual product in its raw nature is to its final consumer, the more sympathy and likelihood they'll consume it they'll have. Some friends of mine are trying to do these rooftop farms in Brooklyn, and I love that idea. As long as they're using clean water and real soil and creating delicious things by the sun, then brilliant.

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

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