Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

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

My favorite thing is always a nice, inexpensive draft beer, but if someone wants something a little more complicated than that, then I'd like a Michelada, which is where I take beer and a little bit of either a spicy or not-so-spicy Bloody Mary, mix it like six to one [ratio], so it's kind of a red beer.

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.

My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

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

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