What will always remain is love, passion and family time.

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

When you use it in cooked foods, it changes [the Tabasco flavor] a little bit; it loses a little bit of the bright acid that you love on it, but you get that more cooked heat and chile flavor down.

I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.