Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.