If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

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

I don't put cream in any pasta noodles ever. I would use a little butter, but I don't ever use cream.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.

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