Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

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

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.

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

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.